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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 1919

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1919

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Table: TABLE II.- HACKNEY BOROUGH.Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year1919.

TABLE II.- HACKNEY BOROUGH.

Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year1919.

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
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 Pox.......................................
Cholera.......................................
Plague.......................................
Anthrax.......................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)669818438461302...87200220162630
Erysipelas110127103146131824422634
Scarlet Fever644712742460242...183148156157535
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever22...16483...756415
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever2............11......11......
Puerperal Fever16......1411......37338
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis7122...11...3...135
Polio Myelitis6...42............114...1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3636..................56131220
Pulmonary Tuberculosis483...2419524096988108142145270
Other forms of Tuberculosis143213842710613328394340
Measles45213173256721...1554012812923
German Measles10342267271...261634271
Encephalitis Lethargica8......2123...23216
Influenzal Pneumonia181110233564408346426947
Pneumonia6761110518143111222227
Malaria124.........28924...173043347
Dysentery2............2.........1...1...
Trench Fever2.........11.........2.........
Totals3,077795511,309340544220346736688988381,650