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Edmonton 1913

[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.1234567
Under 11 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and upwds.Bury Street WardCh'ch Street WardFore Street WardEdmtn. Union Resdnts.Edmtn. Union Total.Strand UnionUndis tributed
Small Pox................................
Cholera (C) Plague (P)................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)1312328359....345443......125
Erysipelas522329923430145..111..
Scarlet Fever4294643153691..11999202..9....397
Typhus Fever................................
Enteric Fever8....2222..125........8
Relapsing (R) or Continued Fever (C)................................
Puerperal Fever2........2........112......
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis................................
Poliomyelitis13..102....1..643..........
Pulmonary Tuberculosis247..52644133372917674..6......
Other forms of Tuberculosis75311391291..272226..........
Totals9571112546910817365630827135911811530

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.