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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 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: Subjoined is a list of the infectious diseases which are notifiable, excluding julmonary tuberculosis, showing the numbers of cases certified in the Borough 'or each of the four quarters of the year, and the numbers and percentage of the sases removed to hospital :—

Subjoined is a list of the infectious diseases which are notifiable, excluding julmonary tuberculosis, showing the numbers of cases certified in the Borough 'or each of the four quarters of the year, and the numbers and percentage of the sases removed to hospital :—

Disease.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.Total.Deaths.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina7610020116954613
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup5344829026921
Typhus Fever..................
Cholera..................
Enteric Fever (Typhoid)3...413203
Continued Fever...1.. .12...
Relapsing Fever..................
Puerperal Fever52294
Erysipelas46394049171:13
Plague .....................
Cerebro-Spinal Fever7161074023
Glanders..................
Anthrax................ v .
Hydrophobia..................
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis...1......1...
Ophthalmia Neonatorum9410730...
Chicken Pox...159......159...
Totals1993663473381,25077
Numbers and percent ages of cases removed to hospitals.168 84-4%192 52-4%301 86-7%297 87-8%958 75-8%...

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As compared with the figures for 1914, scarlet fever and diphtheria are
markedly increased as regards the numbers of cases. The great increase in the
number of cases certified as cerebro-spinal fever is also to be noted. Erysipelas
shews a decrease.
The deaths from the principal zymotic diseases which are notifiable, namely,
small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria and enteric fever were at the rate of 036 per
1,000 population; the rate from measles,* whooping cough and diarrhoea which
are not notifiable, was 2'2 per 1,000 inhabitants.
* Measles was made a notifiable infectious disease by order of the Local Government Board from
January 1st, 1916.