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
Greenwich 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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| Notifiable Diseases. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | Total Cases Notified in each Locality. | Number of Cases Removed to Hospital from each Locality. | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At allAges. | Under 1 | 1 to 0 | At Ages—Years. | Greenwich East | Greenwich West | St. Nicholas, Deptford. | Charlton. | Kidbrooke. (h) | Greenwich East | Greenwich West | St. Nicholas, Deptford. | Charlton. | Kidbrooke. (h) | Total. | ||||||
| 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | .23 to 45 | 45 to65 | 65 and upwards | ||||||||||||||||
| Small-Pox | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Chicken-Pox | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Malaria | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 89 | 1 | 28 | 43 | 11 | 6 | 40 | 12 | 9 | 25 | 3 | 40 | 12 | 9 | 25 | 88 | ||||
| Encephalitis Lethargica | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 71 | 14 | 43 | 8 | 6 | 35 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 35 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 71 | |||||
| Typhus Fever | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Cerebo-Spinal Fever | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Membranous Croup | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Measles | 204 | 10 | 90 | 98 | 6 | 93 | 25 | 9 | 72 | 5 | 15 | 16 | ||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 100 | 13 | 58 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 28 | 8 | 42 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 14 | ||||
| Diarrhoea | 71 | 35 | 36 | 26 | 8 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | 1 | 1 | 12 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 17 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 5 | |||||||||
| „ Non-Pulmonary | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | l | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | |||||
| Pneumonia, Acute Primary, or Acute Influenzal | 14 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| Totals | 628 | 65 | 229 | 217 | 50 | 40 | 23 | 4 | 242 | 118 | 66 | 188 | 14 | 100 | 48 | 32 | 45 | 5 | 230 | |
(H) Cases of Infectious Disease are treated in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose Brook Hospital is situated in Kidbrooke.