Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
The annual report made to the Council of the Metropolitan Borough of Greenwich for the year 1922
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BOROUGH OF GREENWICH.
Notifiable Diseases. | Cases Notfied in Whole District. | Total Cases Notified in each Locality. | Number of Cases Removed to Hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||||||||||
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At all Agca. | At Ages—Years. | Greenwich East. | Greenwich West. | St. Nicholas, Deptford. | Charlton. | Kidbrooke.* | Greenwich East. | Greenwich West. | St. Nicholas, Deptford. | Charlton. | Kidbrooke* | Total. | |||||||
Under | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||||||||||||
Small-Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Chicken-Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria | 241 | 11 | 66 | 123 | 30 | 9 | 2 | .. | 164 | 24 | 14 | 19 | 20 | 158 | 22 | 13 | 18 | 18 | 229 |
Mem. Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | 17 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 9 | 2 | .. | 7 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Scarlet Fever | 226 | 2 | 52 | 128 | 34 | 9 | 1 | .. | 113 | 36 | 17 | 51 | 9 | 107 | 35 | 17 | 44 | .. | 212 |
Malaria | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Measles | 528 | 21 | 223 | 277 | 6 | 1 | .. | .. | 226 | 73 | 95 | 134 | .. | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | 9 |
Whooping Cough | 84 | 9 | 35 | 40 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 28 | 42 | 7 | 5 | .. | 2 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | 8 |
Diarrhoea | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | •• | .. |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | |
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | 57 | .. | 1 | 9 | 15 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
,, Non-Pulmonary | 14 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | .. | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Pneumonia, Acute Primary, or Influenzal | 84 | 1 | 8 | 19 | 16 | 21 | 14 | 5 | 42 | 22 | 4 | 13 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 30 |
Totals | 1261 | 52 | 388 | 602 | 104 | 77 | 29 | 9 | 614 | 219 | 149 | 242 | 37 | 288 | 77 | 35 | 69 | 30 | 499 |
* Cases of Infectious Disease are treated in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose Brook Hospital is situated in Kidbrooke.