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 Shoreditch]
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TABLE II.
Cases of infectious disease notified during the Year 1911 in the Borough of Shoreditch.
Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward of the Borough. | Total Cases Removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Aees—Years. | 1. | u. | 3. | 4. | 5. | 6. | 7. | 8. | |||||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15to25 | 25to45 | 45to65 | 35 and upwards. | Moor-fields. | Church | Hoxton | Wenlock. | Whitmore. | Kingsland. | Haggerston | Acton. | ||||
Small-pox | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | ||
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Diphtheria (including Membranous croup) | 171 | 8 | 84 | 60 | 13 | 6 | .. | .. | 10 | 38 | 30 | 22 | 21 | 12 | 22 | 16 | 163 | |
Erysipelas | 159 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 16 | 52 | 50 | 13 | 5 | 14 | 25 | 14 | 23 | 23 | 23 | |||
Scarlet fever | 234 | 9 | 79 | 133 | 13 | .. | .. | .. | 8 | 9,9 | ?,4 | 35 | 66 | 33 | 19 | 20 | 930 | |
Typhus fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Enteric fever | 22 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | .. | 5 | 1 | 92 | |
Relapsing fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Continued fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Puerperal fever | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 2 | |
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Phthisis | Under Tuberculosis egulations, 1908 | 331 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 46 | 135 | 111 | 17 | 6 | 36 | 39 | 98* | 32 | 16 | 20 | .. | |
Under Tuberculosis Regulations, 1911 | 287 | .. | 3 | 12 | 67 | 155 | 49 | 1 | 22 | 35 | 46 | 36 | 53 | 38 | 34 | 23 | .. | |
Others | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Cerebro-spinal fever | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | |
Acute polio-myelitis | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 32 | 32 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | .. | ||
Totals | 1250 | 59 | 193 | 239 | 165 | 353 | 210 | 31 | 55 | 177 | 164 | 231 | 252 | 132 | 131 | 108 | 446 |
* This number includes the cases of consumption notified in the Holborn Union Workhouse,
t This includes the case of consumption in the Shoreditch Workhouse.
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