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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 1922

Report on the sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Hackney for the year 1922

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Table: TABLE II.—HACKNEY BOROUGH.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year1922.

TABLE II.—HACKNEY BOROUGH.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year1922.

Notifiable Diseases.Cases Notified in whole District.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 Anthrax.................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)732141973471035813...174191195172675
Erysipelas64...1510132691516171614
Scarlet Fever674617836885361...121190166197637
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever4...1...12......21...14
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever10......118......511310
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis41111............1214
Polio Myelitis1...1........................1...
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3030.....................51695
Pulmonary Tuberculosis319...21483154579586890103192
Other Forms of Tuberculosis8527402112212714271739
Encephalitis Lethargica4......11...2...1...213
Influenzal Pneumonia171...2235422764
Pneumonia33138...7104172056
Malaria5.........2211...132
Dysentery1...............11.........1
Trench Fever....................................
Totals1,98355391787310295117284084965445351.596