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Deptford 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]

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PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES. Notifiable Infectious Disease. The following Tables present a Summary of the cases notified, analysed according to age and ward distribution and seasonal incidence:— CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE, EXCLUDING TUBERCULOSIS, NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1938. INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY BY AGE GROUPS.

Notifiable DiseaseAt all AgesTotal Cases Notified. At Ages—YearsTotal Cases Removed to HospitalTotal DeathsDeaths at Ages—Years
Under 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 5565 and upUnder 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and up
Smallpox..................................
Cholera..................................
Diphtheria17776983117....1775..5..........
Erysipelas46....241616827................
Scarlet Fever240..8712113171..2351......1......
Typhus Fever..................................
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid Fever)2....*1......121............1
Relapsing Fever..................................
Continued Fever..................................
Puerperal Fever2........2....2................
Puerperal Pyrexia25......916....23................
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis3..11....1..3................
Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis12..651......12................
Encephalitis Lethargica..................................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1515............11................
Anthrax..................................
Glanders..................................
Hydrophobia..................................
Infantile Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under 2 years)312011..........2377............
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia9661378302395775174l..62027
Malaria1........1....1................
Bacilliary Dysentery12115212..2................
Chicken Fox80335411........................
Posterior Basal Meningitis..................................
Measles Whooping-coughsince15375........120................
1-10-38558398........26................
Totals812642692794990431872189249l162028
• Diagnosis established in hospital as Dysentry and notified as such.