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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
City of London 1909
Annual report of Medical Officer of Health for 1909
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Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1909. CITY OF LONDON.
| Disease. | Casks notified in Whole District. | Total Casks notified in each Locality. | No. ok Cases removed to Hospital from each localitt. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Tears. | St. Botolph. | St.Sepulchre. | St. Botolph. | St .Sepulchre. | |||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 6 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 26 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | |||||||
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria, including 1 Membranous Croup | 17 | _ | 10 | 6 | 1 | — | — | 7 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| Erysipelas | 10 | — | — | — | 1 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Scarlet Fever | 35 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 7 | — | 13 | 22 | 12 | 21 | 33 |
| Typhus „ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric „ | 3 | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | 2 | |
| Relapsing „ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Continued „ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal ,, | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Anthrax | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | 67 | 1 | 14 | 18 | 11 | 18 | 2 | 28 | 39 | 20 | 35 | 55 |
| Chicken-pox | 28 | 1 | 8 | 21 | 2 | 1 | — | 8 | 20 | — | — | — |
| Phthisis | 6 | — | — | — | 1 | 5 | — | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Totals | 101 | 2 | 17 | 39 | 17 | 24 | 2 | 38 | 63 | 21 | 37 | 58 |
This Table is prepared in accordance with the requisitions of the Local Government Board.
* The notification of this disease is voluntary in the City of London.
† For cases of this disease notified under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulation, see p. 26.
In each case a detailed examination was made of the sanitary condition of
the premises where infectious cases occurred, and a summary of defects found
by the District Inspectors is given on page 61.