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 1923
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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 6 | 5 to 16 | 15 to 26 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||||||||||||
Acute Polio Myelitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Small-Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Chicken-Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria | 45 | .. | 14 | 25 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | 27 | 9 | 3 | 6 | .. | 26 | 9 | 3 | 6 | .. | 44 |
Mem. Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | 10 | 1 | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
Scarlet Fever | 46 | 2 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 16 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 40 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 4 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Measles | 193 | 1 | 54 | 132 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | 137 | 12 | 2 | 38 | 4 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 2 |
Whooping Cough | 81 | 12 | 40 | 28 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 41 | 22 | 13 | 5 | .. | 2 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 6 |
Diarrhæa | 7 | 3 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 5 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 4 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 3 |
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | 60 | .. | .. | 8 | 12 | 28 | 10 | 2 | 25 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 4 | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
„ Non-Pulmonary | 10 | .. | 3 | 2 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Pneumonia, Acute Primary, or Influenzal | 26 | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
Totals | 493 | 25 | 136 | 218 | 36 | 46 | 24 | 8 | 279 | 97 | 34 | 72 | 11 | 66 | 33 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 126 |
* Cases of Infectious Disease are treated in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose Brook Hospital is situated in Kidbrooke.