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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

Stepney 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: TABLE III.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1905.

TABLE III.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1905.

Notifiable Disease.Cases notified in Whole District.Total Cases notified in each Locality.No. of Cases removed to Hospitals from each Locality.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.12341234
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 6565 and upwardsLimehouse.St. George'sMile End.Whitechapel.Limehouse.St. George'sMile End.Whitechapel.
Small-pox11......245...119...119...
Cholera.............................................
Diphtheria530233041423328...8710919014476105172135
Membranous Croup5...41.........1...13............
Erysipelas5044141397029122859216016718191756
Scarlet Fever1771389227306219...429190689463387175631453
Typhus Fever5......41............41......41
Enteric Fever117...10402938...2326472121264221
Relapsing Fever.............................................
Continued Fever.............................................
Puerperal Fever14.........77...23541222
Plague.............................................
Totals29571021281958206388226284211105803504328877668