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 is 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 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||||||||||||
Acute Polio Myelitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Small-Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Chicken-Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria | 38 | 1 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 1 | .. | .. | 9 | 14 | 1 | 14 | .. | 8 | 14 | 1 | 14 | .. | 37 |
Encephalitis Lethargica | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | 12 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | 5 |
Scarlet Fever | 48 | .. | 10 | 34 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 21 | 13 | 8 | 6 | .. | 18 | 12 | 8 | 6 | .. | 44 |
Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric Fever | 8 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | 7 |
Malaria | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cerebro-Spinal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Measles | 53 | 4 | 29 | 20 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 18 | 13 | 17 | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | 5 |
Whooping Cough | 41 | 3 | 27 | 11 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 32 | 8 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 2 |
Diarrhæa | 17 | 14 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 8 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | 55 | .. | .. | 5 | 13 | 24 | 13 | .. | 23 | 13 | 6 | 13 | .. | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | 8 |
,, Non-Pulmonary | 16 | .. | 2 | 9 | 3 | 2 | .. | .. | 7 | 5 | 3 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 2 |
Pneumonia, Acute Primary, or Acute Influenzal | 12 | .. | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | .. | 8 | 3 | .. | 1 | .. | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 8 |
Totals | 303 | 24 | 89 | 101 | 30 | 40 | 18 | 1 | 136 | 84 | 41 | 41 | 1 | 44 | 42 | 18 | 23 | .. | 127 |
* Cases of Infectious Disease are treated in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose Brook Hospital is situated in Kidbrooke.