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 Stepney]
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TABLE II.—Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1915.
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
Notifiable Disease. | At all Ages. | Number of Cases notified. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||
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At Ages—Years. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | |||||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | Lime-house. | St. George's | Mile End. | White-chapel. | |||
Small-pox | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 1030 | 28 | 451 | 490 | 44 | 12 | 5 | .. | 170 | 180 | 399 | 281 | 1015 |
Erysipelas | 289 | 17 | 9 | 24 | 46 | 81 | 88 | 24 | 58 | 61 | 87 | 83 | 39 |
Scarlet Fever | 1458 | 29 | 536 | 809 | 60 | 24 | .. | .. | 138 | 267 | 543 | 510 | 1441 |
Typhus Fever | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 4 |
Enteric Fever | 32 | .. | 2 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 2 | .. | 8 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 26 |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Continued Fever | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | |
Puerperal Fever | 13 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 9 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 11 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 20 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 12 | 6 | 18 |
Poliomyelitis | 5 | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 65 | 65 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 33 | 4 | 20 | 8 | .. |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 1051 | 2 | 41 | 233 | 160 | 410 | 180 | 25 | 246 | 178 | 412 | 215 | 381 |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 284 | 6 | 50 | 155 | 36 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 81 | 49 | 86 | 68 | 57 |
Chicken Pox | 418 | 41 | 205 | 165 | 2 | 5 | .. | .. | 73 | 70 | 132 | 143 | 13 |
Totals | 4671 | 196 | 1298 | 1895 | 364 | 576 | 288 | 54 | 810 | 824 | 1712 | 1325 | 3009 |