Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford
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Table No. 4. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF DEPTFORD. CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1919.
Notifiable Disease | Number of cases notified. | Total cases notified in each Ward. | Total Cases Removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||||
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At all Ages | At Ayes—Years | East Ward | North Ward | North-West Ward | South Ward | South-East Ward | South-West Ward | ||||||||
Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||||||||
Chicken Pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria including Membranous Croup | 270 | .. | 68 | 155 | 25 | 22 | .. | .. | 32 | 55 | 93 | 24 | 31 | 35 | 253 |
Erysipelas | 70 | .s | 4 | 6 | 5 | 28 | 20 | 7 | 20 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 13 | .. |
Scarlet fever | 517 | 4 | 133 | 336 | 34 | 10 | .. | .. | 126 | 169 | 119 | 29 | 44 | 30 | 443 |
Typhus fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Enteric fever | 8 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .. | 7 |
Measles | 1439 | 42 | 746 | 630 | 11 | 7 | 3 | .. | 372 | 356 | 343 | 131 | 101 | 136 | 6 |
German Measles | 69 | 3 | 21 | 41 | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | 8 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 79 | .. |
Relapsing fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Continued fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal fever | 90 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 6 | .. | .. | .. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 |
Poliomyelitis | 3 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | 106 | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 292 | 1 | 7 | 83 | 58 | .. | 34 | 3 | 79 | 73 | 52 | 19 | 27 | 42 | 165 |
Other forms of Tuberculosis Ophthalmia | 92 | 3 | 27 | 52 | 5 | 4 | 1 | .. | 38 | 32 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 11 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum Anthrax | 27 | 19 | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 2 | . |
Anthrax | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Pneumonia | 109 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 21 | 38 | 18 | 7 | 31 | 26 | 19 | 7 | 16 | 10 | .. |
Malaria | 66 | .. | .. | .. | 15 | 45 | 5 i | 1 | 28 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 9 | .. |
Diarrhœa | 115 | 47 | 68 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 66 | 22 | 13 | .. | 12 | .. | :: |
Dysentery | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Totals | 3087 | 122 | 1084 | 1323 | 182 | 279 | 81 | 18 | 805 | 787 | 193 | 239 | 254 | 304 | 895 |