London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Paddington 1914
Report on the vital statistics and the work of the Public Health Department for the years 1914-18 (inclusive)
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appendix : sickness. 47
| Smallpox | 1909 , 1910 | 1911 | 1912 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | |||
| ... | ... | 1* | ... | ... | ... | 1* | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Diphtheria | 173 | 116 | 163 | 244 | 293 | 286 | 260 | 207 | |||
| Membranous Croup | 2 | ... | 5 | 4 | 3 | 137 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Erysipelas | 106 | 100 | 117 | 117 | 112 | 66 | |||||
| Fevers. | Scarlet | 629 | 258 | 226 | 272 | 484 | 738 | ||||
| Enteric | 29 | 40 | 37 | 15 | 25 | 10 | 18 | 21 | 12 | 13 | |
| Continued | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ||
| Puerperal | 3 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 7 | |||
| Cerebro-spinal | 7 | ... | 10 | 9 | 7 | 3 | |||||
| Posterior Basic Meningitis | ...(a) | ... | ... | ... | 4 | ... | ... | ... | |||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1(a) | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | ... | |||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 21(a) | 31 | 22 | 51 | 31 | 20 | 27 | 22 | |||
| Tu berculosis—Total | 173 | 341 | 397 | 835 | 664 | 545 | 590 | 526 | 502 | 451 | |
| Pulmonary | 173(c) | 341 | 397(d) | 835 | 492(e) | 397 | 426 | 388 | 355 | 325 | |
| Other Forms | 172(a) | 148 | 164 | 138 | 147 | 126 | |||||
| Measles —Total | 719 | 2162 | 1429 | 1398 | 1240 | 424 | 3721 | 746 | 4245 | 1519 | |
| Reported | 719 | 2162 | 1429 | 1398 | 1240 | 111 | 801 | ||||
| Notified | 313(a) | 2920 | 546 | 2701 | 1004 | ||||||
| Chickenpox—Total | 338 | 520 | 494 | 459 | 599 | 555 | 644 | 468 | 406 | 813 | |
| Reported | 338 | 520 | 494 | 459 | 399 | 555 | 560 | 468 | 406 | 606 | |
| Notified | 84(b) | 207(b) | |||||||||
| Whooping Cough‡ | 589 | 518 | 632 | 377 | 644 | 558 | 365 | 540 | 325 | 691 | |
| Mumps‡ | 420 | 69 | 223 | 341 | 203 | 247 | 167 | 180 | 200 | 680 | |
| Ringworm‡ | 176 | 102 | 165 | 267 | 148 | 196 | 125 | 152 | 117 | 111 | |
* Error. † Measles
(a) First year of notification.
(morbilli) and German Measles (rubeola).
(b) Notified during part of year only
(d) Extended to Hospital Patients.
† Reported, i.e., not notified.
(c) Notification limited to Poor Law cases.
(e) Universal.