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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
Bethnal Green 1912
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1912 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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TABLE II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1912.
| Notifiable Disease. | Oases Notified in whole District. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages | At Ages Years. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65 | 6.5 and upwards. | North East. | South West. | North East. | South West. | ||
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 220 | 12 | 114 | 74 | 9 | 9 | 2 | - | 103 | 117 | 96 | 114 |
| Frysipelas | 190 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 51 | 67 | 24 | 100 | 90 | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 282 | 5 | 111 | 146 | 15 | 5 | - | - | 124 | 158 | 117 | 152 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | - | - | 3 | 13 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 21 | 9 |
| Relapsing Fever | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 16 | - | - | - | 4 | 12 | - | - | 4 | 12 | 3 | 11 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 6 | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | _ | 3 |
| Polio Myelitis | 7 | - | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 579 | - | 4 | 23 | 130 | 268 | 145 | 9 | 280 | 299 | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 28 | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | 10 | - | - |
| Totals | 1358 | 51 | 260 | 267 | 177 | 354 | 215 | 34 | 652 | 706 | 238 | 294 |