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 Notified in Whole District. | Total Cases Notified in each Locality. | Number of Cases Removed to Hospital from each locality. | ||||||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Greenwich East. | Greenwich West. | St. Nicholas, Deptford. | Charlton. | Kidbrooke..* | Greenwich East. | Greenwich West. | St. Nicholas, Deptford. | Charlton. | Kidbrooke* | Total. | |||||||
Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||||||||||||
Small-Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Chicken-Pox | 169 | 13 | 52 | 96 | 5 | 3 | .. | .. | 101 | 46 | 1 | 21 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria | 200 | 5 | 51 | 118 | 19 | 6 | 1 | .. | 87 | 65 | 14 | 25 | 9 | 85 | 62 | 14 | 24 | 9 | 194 |
Mem. Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Scarlet Fever | 109 | 1 | 25 | 60 | 15 | 8 | .. | .. | 43 | 20 | 24 | 13 | 9 | 40 | 18 | 23 | 12 | 8 | 101 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Cerebro-Spinal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | 110 | 1 | 46 | 60 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 67 | 39 | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 |
Whooping Cough | 73 | 10 | 25 | 37 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 37 | 24 | 4 | 8 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Diarrhœa | 4 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | 61 | .. | .. | 12 | 17 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 31 | 15 | 6 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
„ Non-Pulmonary | 11 | .. | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | .. | .. | 6 | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Pneumonia, Acute Primary, or Influenzal | 21 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 2 | .. | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 |
Totals | 773 | 38 | 209 | 393 | 64 | 49 | 15 | 5 | 395 | 225 | 51 | 81 | 21 | 134 | 81 | 38 | 36 | 18 | 307 |
* Cases of Infectious Disease are treated in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose Brook Hospital is situated in Kidbrooke.