[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough] page 62

Deptford 1938

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

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Table: 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.

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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 Disease		At all Ages	Total Cases Notified. At Ages—Years							Total Cases Removed to Hospital	Total Deaths	Deaths at Ages—Years
Notifiable Disease		At all Ages	Under 1	1 to 5	5 to 15	15 to 25	25 to 45	45 to 55	65 and up	Total Cases Removed to Hospital	Total Deaths	Under 1	1 to 5	5 to 15	15 to 25	25 to 45	45 to 65	65 and up
Smallpox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cholera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Diphtheria		177	7	69	83	11	7	..	..	177	5	..	5	..	..	..	..	..
Erysipelas		46	..	..	2	4	16	16	8	27	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Scarlet Fever		240	..	87	121	13	17	1	..	235	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..
Typhus Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid Fever)		2	..	..	*1	..	..	..	1	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Relapsing Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Continued Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Puerperal Fever		2	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Puerperal Pyrexia		25	..	..	..	9	16	..	..	23	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis		3	..	1	1	..	..	1	..	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis		12	..	6	5	1	..	..	..	12	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Encephalitis Lethargica		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Ophthalmia Neonatorum		15	15	..	..	..	..	..	..	11	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Anthrax		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Glanders		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Hydrophobia		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Infantile Diarrhœa and Enteritis (under 2 years)		31	20	11	..	..	..	..	..	23	7	7	..	..	..	..	..	..
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia		96	6	13	7	8	30	23	9	57	75	17	4	l	..	6	20	27
Malaria		1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Bacilliary Dysentery		12	1	1	5	2	1	2	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chicken Fox		80	3	35	41	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Posterior Basal Meningitis		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Measles Whooping-cough	since	15	3	7	5	..	..	..	..	120	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Measles Whooping-cough	1-10-38	55	8	39	8	..	..	..	..	26	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Totals		812	64	269	279	49	90	43	18	721	89	24	9	l	1	6	20	28
• Diagnosis established in hospital as Dysentry and notified as such.

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