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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

Hackney 1921

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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Table: TABLE II. — HACKNEY BOROUGH.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year1921.

TABLE II. — HACKNEY BOROUGH.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year1921.

Notifiable Dieseases.Cases Notified in whole District.Total Cases Notified in each Locality.Total cases removed to Hospital.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.1934
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65 and upwards.North.Central.South-East.South-West.
Small-pox.......................................
Cholera.......................................
Plague.......................................
Anthrax.......................................
Diphtheria (including Mem.......................................
branous Croup)8721918344112097102236206139291802
Erysipelas916465214272123262137
Scarlet Fever1 863133541,2531756534374534695041,729
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever7......52.........22215
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever18.........513......365416
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis22.....................2......2
Polio Myelitis1...1...............1............
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3737..................8610135
Pulmonary Tuberculosis361...32287175686817610698202
Other Forms of Tuberculosis105111532398...2329242933
Encephalitis Lethargica12...143121443112
Influenzal Pneumonia9...1...132221332
Pneumonia4214451212471115913
Malaria3............3.........111...
Dysentery3.........12......12......1
Trench Fever.......................................
Totals3,426795621,788427401147228268228039752,859