Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for 1908 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE XV.-(III.)
CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING THE
YEAR 1908.
Notifiable Disease.
Cases notified in Whole District.
Total
Cases
notified
in each
Locality.
No. of Cases
removed to
Hospital from
each Locality.
At all Ages.
At Agesf—Years.
Under 1.
1 to 5.
5 to 15.
15 to 25.
25 to 65.
65 and
upwards.
North
Chelsea.
South
Chelsea.
North
Chelsea.
South
Chelsea.
Chelsea.
Smallpox
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Cholera
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Diphtheria (including
Membranous Croup)
138
4
44
69
12
9
...
66
72
60
65
125
Erysipelas
48
1
1
5
3
31
7
28
20
4
3
7
Scarlet Fever
174
2
50
95
18
9
...
78
96
75
90
165
Typhus Fever
...
...
....
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Enteric Fever
17
...
...
4
5
8
...
11
6
8
4
12
Relapsing Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Continued Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Puerperal Fever
3
...
...
...
...
3
...
1
2
...
1
1
Plague
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Totals
377
7
92
173
38
60
7
182
195
145
162
307
Note.—The localities adopted for this table should be the same as those in Tables II. and IV.
t These age columns for notifications should be filled up in all cases where the Medical Officer of
Health, by inquiry or otherwise, has obtained the necessary information.