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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 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: TABLE III.BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.Cases of infectious disease notified during the Year 1906.

TABLE III.

BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.

Cases of infectious disease notified during the Year 1906.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in whole District.Total Cases Notified in Each Locality.No.of Cases Removed to Hospital From Each Locality.
At all Ages.At Ages- years.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.
Under 1.1 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 6565 and upwardsMoorfieldsChurch.HoxtonWenlock.Whitmore.Kingsland.Hargerston.Action.MoorfieldsChurch.HoxtonWenlock.Whitmore.Kingsland.Hargerston.Action.
Small-pox.....................................................................
Cholera.....................................................................
Diphtheria1283684584...7191717239171961917132281717
Membranous croup5131............1.........211...............1...1
Erysipelas1446914148912923212020191517111123...2
Scarlet fever6297240350266...27901151201235755422789112115122575337
Typhus fever.....................................................................
Enteric fever39...181515...110446284110346264
Relapsing fever.....................................................................
Continued fever.....................................................................
Puerperal fever6.........24......1............14.....................1
Plague.....................................................................
Totals9511732141865118124414415716117289978735119133133152717662