Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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TABLE II.—Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1913.
Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward or Institution. | Total Cases Remov'd to Hospital | |||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||
Under 1 | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwds. | Bury Street Ward | Ch'ch Street Ward | Fore Street Ward | Edmtn. Union Resdnts. | Edmtn. Union Total. | Strand Union | Undis tributed | |||
Small Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera (C) Plague (P) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 131 | 2 | 32 | 83 | 5 | 9 | .. | .. | 34 | 54 | 43 | .. | .. | .. | 125 | |
Erysipelas | 52 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 23 | 4 | 30 | 14 | 5 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. |
Scarlet Fever | 429 | 4 | 64 | 315 | 36 | 9 | 1 | .. | 119 | 99 | 202 | .. | 9 | .. | .. | 397 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 8 | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | .. | 1 | 2 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 |
Relapsing (R) or Continued Fever (C) | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. |
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Poliomyelitis | 13 | .. | 10 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 6 | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 247 | .. | 5 | 26 | 44 | 133 | 37 | 2 | 91 | 76 | 74 | .. | 6 | .. | .. | .. |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 75 | 3 | 11 | 39 | 12 | 9 | 1 | .. | 27 | 22 | 26 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Totals | 957 | 11 | 125 | 469 | 108 | 173 | 65 | 6 | 308 | 271 | 359 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 530 |
The figures take account of any corrections made as a result of error in notification or revision of diagnosis as a result of the further course of the disease.
Isolation Hospitals, Sanatoria, &c.:—
Enfield and Edmonton Joint Isolation Hospital at World's End, Winchmore Hill, is in the Urban District of Enfield.
Clare Hall Small Pox Hospital and Sanitorium for consumptive persons. This is situate in the South Mimms rural district of Middlesex and
belongs to 16 Middlesex districts.
There is a building on Clavering's Farm, Edmonton, capable of taking ten male and six female Small-pox cases.