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Shoreditch 1911

[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.
At all Ages.At Aees—Years.1.u.3.4.5.6.7.8.
Under 1.1 to 55 to 1515to2525to4545to6535 and upwards.Moor-fields.ChurchHoxtonWenlock.Whitmore.Kingsland.HaggerstonActon.
Small-pox3......21....3..............3
Cholera..................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous croup)17188460136....1038302221122216163
Erysipelas15959141652501359,714282514232323
Scarlet fever23497913313......89,9?,43566331920930
Typhus fever..................................
Enteric fever2211065......13444..5192
Relapsing fever..................................
Continued fever..................................
Puerperal fever5......23......111......22
Plague..................................
PhthisisUnder Tuberculosis egulations, 1908331171446135111176363998*74†321620..
Under Tuberculosis Regulations, 1911287..312671554912235463653383423..
Others..................................
Cerebro-spinal fever43....1........2..11......3
Acute polio-myelitis2..1....1......11............
Ophthalmia neonatorum3232..............5568323..
Totals1250591932391653532103155177164231252132131108446

* 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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