Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
This page requires JavaScript
Table No. 2.
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD.
(This Table is prepared in accordance with the requisitions of the Local Government Board).
CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1912.
Notifiable Disease
Number of cases notified.
Total cases notified in each Ward.
Total Cases
Removed to
Hospital.
At all
Ages
At Ages—Years
East
Ward
North
Ward
North -West
Ward
South
Ward
South- East
Ward
South- West
Ward
Under 1
1 to 5
5 to 15
15 to 25
25 to 45
45 to 65
65 and
upwards
Small-pox
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Cholera
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Diphtheria including
Membranous croup
172
3
62
90
7
10
..
..
30
49
41
17
15
20
151
Erysipelas
188
9
6
15
23
68
50
17
70
46
27
13
16
16
17
Scarlet fever
406
5
124
235
26
16
..
..
60
133
90
36
40
47
357
Typhus fever
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Enteric fever
9
..
..
4
3
2
..
..
3
2
3
..
..
1
8
Relapsing fever
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
Continued fever
1
..
..
..
..
1
..
..
..
..
..
..
1
..
..
Puerperal fever
8
..
..
..
3
5
..
..
1
2
2
..
1
2
5
Cerebro-spinal
Meningitis
4
..
..
3
1
..
..
..
1
..
1
1
..
1
3
Poliomyelitis
4
..
4
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
2
..
..
2
2
Pulmonary
Tuberculosis
436
3
10
73
62
194
85
9
153
89
77
25
64
28
119
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum
26
26
..
..
..
..
..
..
6
8
6
..
1
5
2
Totals
1254
46
206
420
125
296
135
26
324
329
249
92
138
122
664
54