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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

Port of London 1907

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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TABLE IV.

Table: INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

Disease.1898.1899.1900.1901.1902.1903.1904.1905.1906.Mean annual number for 10 years ending 31st December, 1907.1907.
(a) Cases reported:
Cholera (including suspected cases)1...1...2094635.39
Yellow Fever (ditto).....................120.3...
Plague (ditto)346191066997.64
Small-pox11121513931311243125.027
Scarlet Fever1551427131111268224.844
Diphtheria57202826738711.87
Enteric Fever536612678668850658172.855
Measles18386783361438366844.951
Erysipelas31025241974.52
Typhus Fever...............1.........0.1...
Continued Fever11252131211116.911
Other diseases (including Chicken-pox).11712914917163517.242
Total11116026526728217553211336221.2252
(b) Treated in Port Sanitary Hospital:
Cholera (including suspected cases)...........................0.11
Yellow Fever (ditto).................................
Plague (ditto)11313434313.63
Small-pox8897291154...8.98
Scarlet Fever21252573285.94
Diphtheria2...1524...212.03
Enteric Fever27235537275533232633.327
Measles1074511781338.214
Erysipelas13...111...211.0...
Typhus Fever.................................
Continued Fever112541312976.410
Other diseases (including Chicken-pox).66818441246.75
Total585084798810373609176.175