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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
Deptford 1912
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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72
Infectious Diseases, 1912.
Disease.
Total
number of
notifications
received.
Relating
to
cases.
Errors of
diagnosis
and cases
occurring
in hospital
Nett
number of
cases.
Small-Pox
-
-
-
-
Cholera
—
—
—
—
Diphtheria (including
Membranous Croup)
177
172
7
165
Erysipelas
217
188
1
187
Scarlet Fever
413
406
17
389
Typhus Fever
-
-
-
-
Enteric Fever
10
9
-
9
Relapsing Fever
—
—
-
-
Continued Fever
1
1
-
1
Puerperal Fever
8
8
-
8
Plague
—
—
-
—
Cerebro-spinal Fever
5
4
-
4
Anthrax
—
—
-
-
Hydrophobia
—
—
-
-
Glanders
—
—
-
—
Phthisis
847
436
-
436
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
32
26
-
26
Acute Poliomyelitis
4
4
-
4
Total
1714
1254
25
1229
Previous Year
1466
1233
27
1206