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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 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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The cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, erysipelos, enteric fever and puerperal
fever notified numbered 1,011 as compared with 27,629 for the whole of the Metropolis,
the attack rates being 9.5 and 6.0 per 1,000 papulation respectively.

Table: Excluding tuberculosis, the following table shows the numbers of cases of infectious disease certified in the Borough for each of the four quarters of the year and the numbers and percentages of the cases removed to hospital:—

Excluding tuberculosis, the following table shows the numbers of cases of infectious disease certified in the Borough for each of the four quarters of the year and the numbers and percentages of the cases removed to hospital:—

Disease.First Quarter. .Second QuarterThird QuarterFourth Ouarter.Total.Deaths.
Smallpox..................
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina881231551134855
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup1358810011744017
Typhus Fever..................
Cholera..................
Enteric Fever (Typhoid).........221
Continued Fever1.........1...
Relapsing Fever..................
Puerperal Fever4261132
Erysipelas161120217111
Plague..................
Cerebro-Spinal Fever11......23
Glanders..................
Anthrax..................
Hydrophobia..................
Anterior Polio-myelitis.........22...
Encephalitis Lethargica3253133
Ophthalmia Neonatorum151211745...
Acute Primary Pneumonia6849119925740
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia122117323
Malaria..................
Dysentery..................
Trench Fever..................
Totals3432993393821,36385
N umbers and percentages of cases removed to hospitals.2982673113291,205...
86.9%89.3%93.l%80.1%88.4%...

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As compared with the figures for 1924, there is an, increase in the number of cases
of diphtheria and scarlet fever, and a decrease in the amount of pneumonia.
ISOLATION OF INFECTIOUS CASES.
The hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board receive cases of scarlet fever,
smallpox, diphtheria, including membranous croup, enteric, typhus, and continued