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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 1918

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1918

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Table: TABLE II.—HACKNEY DISTRICT.Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year1918.

TABLE II.—HACKNEY DISTRICT.

Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year1918.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in whole Districts.Total Cases Notified in each Locality.Total cases removed to Hospital.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.North.Central.South.East.South.West.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65 and upwards.
Small Pox3......1...2...............33
Cholera.......................................
Plague.......................................
Anthrax1.....................1............11
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)45091262663911416913717476415
Erysipelas9744792934101324263424
Scarlet Fever2669551673291...59885663234
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever27...229ii3...7510520
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever8.........53.........5215
Cerebro.Spinal Meningitis5...121...1...122...5
Polio Myelitis2...9...............1...1...0
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2020..................46823
Pulmonary Tuberculosis793...3641874081265194160190249240
Other forms of Tuberculosis1096115024135...1423343827
Measles1,5646975070925101...38443434939766
German Measles22654412439131...913419821
Chicken Pox2851210316352......835165867
Totals3,8621271,1011,555375511177169209699361,0371,053