Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich
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TABLE 28.
Notification of Infectious Diseases, 1901 to 1919.
Year. | Small-pox. | Diphtheria and Mem. Croup. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Tuberculosis.* | Continued Fever. | Cerebro-Spinal Fever. | Anterior Poliomyelitis. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Zymotic Enteritis. | Post basic Meningitis. | Anthrax. | Encephalitis. | Malaria. | Dysentery. | Pneumonia.† |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1901 | 21 | 216 | 311 | 68 | 72 | 8 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1902 | 228 | 233 | 267 | 50 | 98 | 11 | 189 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1903 | 6 | 186 | 389 | 42 | 58 | 2 | 165 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1904 | 6 | 163 | 472 | 25 | 74 | 5 | 186 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1905 | 7 | 273 | 513 | 27 | 83 | 12 | 145 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1906 | .. | 387 | 528 | 40 | 97 | 8 | 176 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1907 | .. | 275 | 1023 | 27 | 110 | 6 | 150 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1908 | .. | 362 | 596 | 19 | 90 | 6 | 154 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1909 | .. | 268 | 1027 | 13 | 113 | 9 | 206 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1910 | 1 | 171 | 524 | 10 | 89 | 7 | 196 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1911 | .. | 239 | 518 | 16 | 82 | 16 | 375 | .. | 1 | 3 | 8 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1912 | 3 | 429 | 474 | 20 | 87 | 2 | 689 | .. | 1 | 3 | 20 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1913 | .. | 321 | 626 | 14 | 70 | 8 | 675 | .. | .. | 1 | 14 | 338 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1914 | .. | 416 | 714 | 18 | 107 | 7 | 498 | .. | 1 | .. | 18 | 199 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1915 | .. | 286 | 601 | 31 | 138 | 6 | 489 | .. | 50 | 2 | 19 | 173 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1916 | 1 | 271 | 232 | 9 | 95 | 16 | 469 | .. | 14 | .. | 33 | 80 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1917 | .. | 277 | 147 | 12 | 79 | 12 | 543 | .. | 17 | 1 | 41 | 101 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1918 | .. | 240 | 222 | 12 | 61 | 14 | 660 | .. | 7 | 2 | 23 | 118 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
1919 | 4 | 398 | 243 | 26 | 63 | 7 | 474 | .. | 6 | 1 | 34 | 123 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 61 | 7 | 123 |
* Voluntary Notification to 1910: partial to 1912: all oases thereafter. † Includes all forms of Pneumonia.