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 is 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. | Chariton. | Kidbrooke.* | Greenwich East. | Greenwich West. | St. Nicholas, Deptford. | Charlton. | Kidbrooke* | Total. | |||||||
Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 13 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||||||||||||
Acute Polio Myelitis | 2 | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Small-Pox | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
Chicken-Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Diphtheria | 38 | .. | 8 | 20 | 6 | 4 | .. | .. | 12 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 13 | .. | 7 | 2 | 38 |
Mem. Croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | 15 | .. | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | .. | .. | 6 | 6 | 2 | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 4 |
Scarlet Fever | 31 | .. | 8 | 15 | 5 | 3 | .. | .. | 11 | 12 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 10 | .. | .. | 5 | 1 | 29 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 3 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Malaria | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 3 |
Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | 58 | 1 | 29 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | 44 | 8 | .. | 6 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Whooping Cough | 35 | 8 | 15 | 12 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 12 | 13 | 1 | .. | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 4 |
Diarrhoea | 62 | 26 | 36 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 27 | 29 | 2 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Tuber-culosis, Pulmonary | 43 | .. | .. | 8 | 13 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 9 | .. | 14 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | 18 |
„ Non-Pulmonary | 22 | .. | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | .. | .. | 5 | 12 | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
Pneumonia, Acute Primary, or Influenzal | 7 | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Totals | 331 | 40 | 106 | 89 | 41 | 35 | 15 | 5 | 147 | 111 | 28 | 41 | 4 | 48 | 31 | 8 | 14 | 4 | 105 |
* Cases of Infectious Disease are treated in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose Brook Hospital is situated in Kidbrooke.