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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 1929

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1929.Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1929.

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Notifiable Disease.Number of Cases notified.Total Cases notified in each Locality.Total cases removed to Hospital
At Ages—Years.Lime- houseSt. George'sMile EndWhite- chapel
At all AgesUnder1 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and
Smull-pox490638175137934012472020815490
Chicken Pox8292932245721.........123136366204103
Cholera.......................................
Plague.......................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)5862822927037193...1569324592583
Erysipelas1737818204753202527685373
Scarlet Fever104782986189922111831564862221031
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever12......5331...242412
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever11............11......217111
Puerperal Pyrexia14.........410......52619
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis853...............224...8
Polio-Myelitis33...........................33
Polio-Encephalitis.......................................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3838..................105111213
Pulmonary Tuberculosis43423211141561251310162165106269
Other forms of Tuberculosis12332445271772919462975
Encephalitis Lethargica.......................................
Totals376812992516094623782303588552716147422683