Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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Notified Diseases. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | Total Cases Notified in each Locality. | Number of Cases Removed to Hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Greenwich East | Greenwich West | St. Nicholas, 1 Deptford. | 1Charlton. | Kidbrooke. (h) | Greenwich East | Greenwich West | St. Nicholas, Deptford. | Charlton. | Kidbrooke. (h) | Total. | |||||||
Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 26 to 46 | 45 to 65 | 65 an.) upwards | |||||||||||||
Small-Pox | |||||||||||||||||||
Chicken-Pox | |||||||||||||||||||
Cholera | |||||||||||||||||||
Diphtheria | 89 | 2 | 28 | 48 | 8 | 3 | 43 | 13 | 9 | 22 | 2 | 43 | 13 | 9 | 22 | 88 | |||
Encephalitis Lethargica | |||||||||||||||||||
Erysipelas | 19 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 10 | ||||||
Scarlet Fever | 102 | 18 | 66 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 54 | 20 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 53 | 20 | 11 | 11 | ||||
Membranous Croup | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Enteric Fever | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||||
Continued Fever | ... | ||||||||||||||||||
Puerperal Fever | |||||||||||||||||||
Cerebo-Spinal Fever | |||||||||||||||||||
Malaria | |||||||||||||||||||
Measles | 38 | 4 | 13 | 20 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
Whooping Cough | 259 | 37 | 132 | 90 | 129 | 8 | 26 | 90 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 9 | ||||||
Diarrhoea | 13 | 8 | 5 | 11 | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | 13 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||||||||
„ Non-Pulmonary | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | ... | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Pneumonia, Acute Primary, or Acute Influenzal | 27 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | |
Totals | 597 | 55 | 201 | 233 | 43 | 32 | 24 | 9 | 296 | 68 | 54 | 163 | 16 | 114 | 47 | 27 | 43 | 6 | 237 |
(H) Cases of Infectious Disease are treated in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose Brook Hospital is situated in Kidbrooke.
* Includes 2 notifications dated 31/12/28.