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 the year 1907
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registered during the year was 373, compared with 329, 329 and 344
for the three previous years. 83 were children under one year of
age, 154 children over one and under five years and 102 were
persons over 65 years of age.
Disease. | Total number of notifications received. | Relating to cases. | Errors of diagnosis and hospital cases. | Nett number of cases. |
---|---|---|---|---|
Small-Pox | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria | 311 | 287 | 38 | 249 |
Membraneous Croup | 13 | 13 | - | 13 |
Erysipelas | 130 | 130 | - | 130 |
Scarlet Fever | 774 | 40 | 734 | |
Enteric Fever | 35 | 34 | 26 | |
Continued Fever | 7 | 4 | - | 4 |
Puerperal Fever | 5 | 4 | - | 4 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 2 | 2 | - | |
Total | 1303 | 1248 | ||
1906 | 1241 | 1171 | 29 | 1143 |
The following table shows the number of notifications received
during each of the last ten years.
Notifications in the Metkopolitan Borough of Deptford from 1897 to 1907.
Year. | Smallpox. | Diphtheria. | Membraneous Croup. | Erysipelas. | Scarlet Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Continued Fever. | Puerperal Fever | Chicken Pox. | Measles. | Cerebro-spinal Meningitis. | Totals. | Disinfections. (premises) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1897 | 1 | 464 | 9 | 186 | 632 | .. | 112 | 10 | .. | .. | .. | 1416 | 837 | |
1898 | .. | 386 | 15 | 154 | 510 | 1 | 102 | 2 | 10 | .. | .. | .. | 1178 | 677 |
1899 | .. | 406 | 30 | 185 | 756 | .. | 100 | 2 | 12 | .. | .. | .. | 1492 | 844 |
1900 | .. | 356 | .. | 171 | 504 | .. | 111 | 2 | 9 | .. | .. | .. | 1164 | 673 |
1901 | 4 | 407 | .. | 78 | 550 | 8 | 60 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1116 | 925 |
1902 | 139 | 253 | 4 | 147 | 638 | .. | 73 | .. | 3 | 1119 | .. | .. | 2456 | 1076 |
1903 | 2 | 449 | 11 | 134 | 501 | 2 | 31 | 7 | 46 | 273 | .. | 1184 | 1164 | |
1904 | 11 | 186 | 4 | 146 | 501 | .. | 29 | .. | 8 | 304 | 1029 | .. | 1129 | 1507 |
2 | 143 | 6 | 152 | 603 | .. | 33 | .. | 7 | .. | 600 | .. | 946 | 1197 | |
1906 | 1 | 303 | 8 | 161 | 649 | .. | 40 | .. | 9 | .. | 1007 | .. | 1171 | 1593 |
Averages 1897 to 1906 | 16 | 338 | 8 | 152 | 584 | 1 | 69 | 9 | 7 | 146 | 290 | 0 | 1472 | 1139 |
1907 | .. | 287 | 13 | 130 | 774 | .. | 34 | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | 2 | 1248 | 1495 |