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 Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 48.
Notification of Infectious Diseases, 1901 to 1927.
Year. | Small-pox. | Diphtheria and Mem. Croup | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever, ,, Pyrexia × | Tuberculosis. | Continued Fever. | Cerebro Spinal Fever. | Anterior Poliomyelitis. | Encephalitis lethargica. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Zymotic Enteritis.§ | Anthrax. | Malaria. | Dysentery. | Pneumonia.† | Measles.‡ |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1901 | 21 | 216 | 311 | 68 | 72 | 8 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 323 |
1902 | 228 | 233 | 267 | 50 | 98 | 11 | 189 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 646 | |
1903 | 6 | 186 | 389 | 42 | 58 | 2 | 165 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 661 |
1904 | 6 | 163 | 472 | 25 | 74 | 5 | 186 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1240 |
1905 | 7 | 273 | 513 | 27 | 83 | 12 | 145 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 212 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 465 |
1906 | .. | 387 | 528 | 40 | 97 | 8 | 176 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 366 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 825 |
1907 | .. | 275 | 1023 | 27 | 110 | 6 | 150 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 93 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1453 | |
1908 | .. | 362 | 596 | 19 | 90 | 6 | 154 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 173 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 519 | |
1909 | .. | 268 | 1027 | 13 | 113 | 9 | 206 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 149 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 768 |
1910 | 1 | 171 | 524 | 10 | 89 | 7 | 196 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 102 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 396 |
1911 | .. | 239 | 518 | 16 | 82 | 16 | 375 | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 8 | 866 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 801 |
1912 | 3 | 429 | 474 | 20 | 87 | 2 | 689 | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | 20 | 129 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 775 |
1913 | .. | 321 | 626 | 14 | 70 | 8 | 675 | .. | .. | .. | 14 | 338 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 387 | |
1914 | .. | 416 | 714 | 18 | 107 | 7 | 498 | .. | .. | .. | 18 | 199 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 967 | |
1915 | .. | 286 | 601 | 31 | 138 | 6 | 489 | .. | 50 | 2 | .. | 19 | 173 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1179 |
1916 | .. | 271 | 232 | 9 | 95 | 16 | 469 | .. | 17 | .. | .. | 33 | 80 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1590 |
1917 | .. | 277 | 147 | 12 | 79 | 12 | 543 | .. | 22 | .. | 41 | 101 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1710 | |
1918 | .. | 240 | 222 | 12 | 61 | 14 | 660 | .. | 11 | 3 | .. | 23 | 118 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 800 |
1919 | 4 | 398 | 243 | 26 | 63 | 474 | .. | 1 | 3 | 34 | 123 | 1 | 61 | 123 | 1886 | |||
1920 | 427 | 538 | 6 | 82 | 13 | 428 | .. | 6 | .. | 3 | 29 | 31 | .. | 29 | 136 | 1013 | ||
1921 | .. | 592 | 1351 | 11 | 59 | 14 | 356 | .. | 2 | .. | 9 | 32 | 454 | .. | 10 | 4 | 236 | 481 |
1922 | .. | 437 | 511 | 8 | 37 | 11 | 305 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 31 | .. | 11 | .. | 345 | 2698 |
1923 | .. | 152 | 334 | 16 | 40 | 8 | 311 | .. | 5 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 49 | .. | 4 | 1 | 242 | 194 |
1924 | .. | 195 | 440 | 11 | 45 | 342 | .. | 12 | 5 | 17 | 27 | 13 | .. | 3 | 354 | 2679 | ||
1925 | .. | 299 | 364 | 16 | 44 | 9 | 300 | .. | 5 | 10 | 31 | 13 | .. | 5 | 1 | 277 | 1916 | |
1926 | .. | 393 | 411 | 8 | .. | 11 | 349 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 23 | .. | 5 | .. | 292 | 1246 |
1927 | .. | 278 | 478 | 9 | 65 | 38 | 353 | .. | 4 | 3 | 6 | 19 | 12 | .. | 3 | 1 | 316 | 457 |
* Voluntary Notification to 1910 ; partial to 1912 : all cases thereafter. † Includes all forms of Pneumonia.
‡ Measles compulsorily notifiable from 1/1/1916 to 31/12/1919.
§ Compulsory notification of Zymotic Enteritis commenced 1913.
× Compulsory notification of Puerperal Pyrexia commenced October, 1926.