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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 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1923.Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1923.

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Notifiable Disease.Number of Cases notified.Total Cases notified in each Locality.Total cases removed to Hospital
At all AgesAt Ages—Years.1234
Under 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and upwardsLime-houseSt. George'sMile EndWhite-chapel
Small-pox.......................................
Cholera.......................................
Plague.......................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)5101721621547141...1337321490506
Erysipelas1333816143433252335423329
Scarlet Fever4683196241199......6883169148464
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever21...34851...327921
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever15.........114......144612
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis411......11......1124
Poliomyelitis312...............21......3
Polioencephalitis2......2............11......2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3939..................12713711
Pulmonary Tuberculosis455...53895198103168373175124302
Other forms of Tuberculosis139...34532222623425582291
Encephalitis Lethargica9......2421...21426
Anthrax1...............1......1......1
Total179964465571210299147433623076874431452