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Edmonton 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]

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Table: TABLE V.Table showing the Number of Cases Notified and the Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases for the year 1912,and ten preceding years.

TABLE V.

Table showing the Number of Cases Notified and the Deaths from the principal Zymotic Diseases for the year 1912,

and ten preceding years.

Disease.1912.1911.1910.1909.1908.1907.1906.1905.1904.1903.1902.
Pop.Pop.Pop.Pop.Pop.Pop.Pop.Pop.Pop.Pop.Pop.
65,08463,14661,74161,16460,18259,43456,81854,60653,35852,13950,388
CasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeathsCasesDeaths
Notifiable.†Small Pox..............................................4...1...701120
†Scarlet Fever21116815552834308122318383132596181311921796
†Diphtheria and Membranous Croup361343752411013158279517931137446101916013
†Enteric Fever311223463073562952574463882868614
Erysipelas49255149142273...54...784661745632663
Puerperal Fever11............3...323352321...3142
*Phthisis228601074569508443...54...53...65...42...71...58...45
Non-notifiable.†Diarrhœa and Epidemic Enteritis...19...145...22...37...41...32...114...56...151...61...46
Enteritis......6...1...2...2...5...2...10...14...8...29
†Measles...15...31...3...8...19...21...19...27...28...10...19
†Whooping Cough...23...15...9...13...15...39...8...30...7...19...20
Influenza...4...3...3...17...9...14...9...9...10...2...8
Other Tuberculous Diseases...20...25...31...26...35...34...38...34..................

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†The seven principal zymotic Diseases on the deaths from which the zymotic death-rate is based.
Infectious Diseases Notification and Prevention Acts have been in force since March 1st, 1891.
Before 1906, although their notifications were included, deaths in the Strand Union and amongst non-residents in the Edmonton Union were
excluded from this table.
Deaths of Residents occurring outside the District are included. Our Isolation Hospitals are all outside the District.
*Compulsory Notification of Phthisis began on January 1st, 1909. as far as paupers are concerned, on May 1st, 1911, as far as hospital patients are concerned.
and on January 1st,. 1912. for private patients. The populations noted are nett, or exclusive of "foreigners" in institutions.