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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

Hackney 1914

Report on the sanitary condition of the Hackney District for the year 1914

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Table: TABLE II.—HACKNEY DISTRICT.Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year1914.

TABLE II.—HACKNEY DISTRICT.

Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year1914.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in whole Districts.Total Cases Notified in each Locality.Total cases removed to Hospital,
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.1234
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65 and upwards.North.CentralSouth-EastSouth-West.
Small Pox.......................................
Cholera.......................................
Plague..................•••..................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup4741015723240314...13580129130409
Erysipelas290520173810088285179927457
Scarlet Fever790416050288324146229163252693
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever23...13118......9713119
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever2...11..................2...2
Puerperal Fever17.........611......358111
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis32......l............21...2
Polio Myelitis5...32............31...11
Ophthalmia Neonatorum4545..................1491111...
Pulmonary Tuberculosis550741131269891396111161182310
Other forms of Tuberculosis1481333592516......2028564449
Anthrax1.........1............1......1
Totals2,3547938285734146718741470552636 i6961,554