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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 1920

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1920

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Table: TABLE II—HACKNEY BOROUGH.Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year1920.

TABLE II—HACKNEY BOROUGH.

Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year1920.

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.Central.South-East.South-West.
Small Pox.......................................
Cholera.......................................
Plague.......................................
Anthrax1............1......1.........1
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)7642318541789446...129196174265702
Erysipelas1205310103250102532362747
Scarlet Fever1,0771018974883452...257354248218984
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever14......1166...443311
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever23.........419......467619
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis7331............13124
Polio Myelitis.......................................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3333..................589113
Pulmonary Tuberculosis4101445871838377478126132259
Other forms of Tuberculosis139519742214321629445046
Encephalitis Lethargica10......1333...51318
Influnezal Pneumonia42112526521254218
Pneumonia55312154911112827810
Malaria21.........417......67443
Dysentery7.........25......41111
Trench Fever.......................................
Totals2,723844161,314314404169225557326877492,106