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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Shoreditch 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: TABLE III.BOROUGH OP SHOREDITCH.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1900.

TABLE III.

BOROUGH OP SHOREDITCH.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1900.

Notifiable Disease.Cases notified in Whole District.Total Cases Notifed in each Locality.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each locality.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.1.2.3.4.1.2.3.4.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.Shore-ditch South.Hoxton New Town,Hoxton Old Town.Haggeis-ton.Shore-ditch South.Hoxton New Town.Hoxton Old Town.Haggers-ton.
Small-pox3.........12.........2l......2...
Cholera.............................................
Diphtheria344141611342411...609250142547847122
Membranous croup918...............216...1...3
Erysipelas17012910221021523422976............
Scarlet fever3306121171266...2719265136258052116
Typhus fever.............................................
Enteric fever122...14453330...102337529193443
Relapsing fever.............................................
Continued fever2............2.........11............
Puerperal fever9.........45......162............
Plague.............................................
Totals989333133601101581512026219141688178135284