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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
Deptford 1914
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Diphtheria.
| WARDS. | QUARTERS. | YEAR. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March. | June. | Sept. | Dec. | |||||||||||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F | Total. | ||||||
| East | 9 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 47 | |||||
| North | 6 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 19 | 27 | 46 | |||||
| North-West | 3 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 23 | 13 | 20 | 33 | 65 | 98 | |||||
| South | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | — | — | 3 | - | 6 | 8 | 14 | |||||
| South-East | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 9 | 26 | |||||
| South-West | — | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | 5 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 22 | |||||
| Total | 24 | 34 | 25 | 31 | 21 | 34 | 36 | 48 | 106 | 147 | 253 | |||||
| AGES OF PATIENTS NOTIFIED. | ||||||||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1-5 | 5-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 & upwards. | All Ages. | |||||||||
| - | 71 | 137 | 28 | 15 | 1 | l | 253 | |||||||||
Enteric Fever.
| 1914. | Average of previous 10 years. | |
|---|---|---|
| Number of Cases | 9 | 26 |
| Number of Deaths | 3 | 4 |
| Death rate per 1,000, Deptford | 0•03 | 0•03 |
This disease has been endemic in the borough for many years.
There has been no serious outbreak of the disease during the last
ten years, and only once in that time have we had 40 cases notified in
the one year.
During the past year we had 9 cases notified, as compared with
17 cases in 1913, 9 cases in 1912, and 13 cases in 1911. One of
this year's number, however, was an error of diagnosis.
The prevalence of this disease is generally considered an index of
the sanitary state of a district, and such a small number of cases
in so densely populated a town is an indication of a good sanitary
condition as regards its water carriage system, sewage, drainage, and
good pure water supply.
Three deaths were attributed to this disease during the year,
compared with 2 in each of the preceding three years.