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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
Finsbury 1923
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1923
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Cases of Infectious Diseasb Notified during the Year 1923.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of cases notified. | Total cases notified in each locality. | Total cases removed to Hospital | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages | At Ages-Years. | Clerkenwell | Luke | St. Sepulchre | ||||||||
| Under 1 year | 1 and under 5 years | 5 and under 15 years | 15 and under 25 years | 25 and under 45 years | 45 and under 65 years | 65 and upwards | ||||||
| Small Pox | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Cholera, Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 311 | 9 | 104 | 148 | 30 | 19 | 4 | - | 216 | 95 | 3 | 314 |
| Scarlet Fever | 183 | 4 | 74 | 88 | 11 | 5 | 1 | - | 129 | 52 | 2 | 181 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | 2 |
| Relapsing Fever, Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 13 | - | - | - | 4 | 9 | - | - | 8 | 5 | - | - |
| Cerebro Spinal Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 8 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | - | - |
| Pulmonary tuberculosis | 150 | 1 | - | 9 | 40 | 60 | 35 | 5 | 95 | 52 | 3 | 93 |
| Other forms of tuberculosis | 45 | - | 10 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 1 | - | 27 | 17 | 1 | 22 |
| Anthrax | - | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Glanders | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Trench Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 50 | - | 11 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 33 | 17 | - | - |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 14 | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 7 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 138 | - | 7 | 7 | 33 | 54 | 28 | 9 | 109 | 29 | - | - |
| Encephalitis lethargica | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Acute polioencephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Hydrophobia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| •Diarrhoea | 139 | 38 | 67 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 112 | 27 | - | - |
| ‡Measles | 357 | 25 | 224 | 103 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 217 | 135 | 5 | 60 |
| Totals | 1,417 | 85 | 498 | 383 | 147 | 180 | 97 | 27 | 964 | 439 | 14 | 674 |
Nett Births
in the year
Legitimate 1,818
Illegitimate 26
Nett Deaths
in the year
Legitimate Infants 108
Illegitimate Infants 4