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Greenwich 1929

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

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BOROUGH OF GREENWICH. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year ended 28th December, 1929.

Notifiable Diseases.Cases Notified in Whole District.Total Cases Notified in each Locality.Number of Cases Removed to Hospital from each locality.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.Greenwich EastGreenwich WestSt. Nicholas, Deptford.Charlton.Kidbrooke. (h)Greenwich EastGreenwich WestSt. Nicholas, Deptford.Charlton.Kidbrooke. (h)Total.
Under 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and upwards
Small-Pox1.........1............1............1.........1
Membranous Croup2...11...............1...1......1...1...2
Diphtheria35659418744242...115882710917113872610916351
Encephalitis Lethargica4...1......11121......111......13
Erysipelas61...53615191329121082985...123
Scarlet Fever349...8618854174...1209468541312091685212343
Typhus Fever.........................................................
Enteric Fever5.........221...1......221......225
Polio Myelitis7...43...............331......331...7
Puerperal Fever4.........22.........1...21...1...214
Puerperal Pyrexia11.........47......63......242......17
Cerebro-Spinal Fever1......1...............1............1.........1
Malaria1............1......1..............................
Measles537341892623814......1301887913282021202...63
Whooping Cough62478361179...51...4151102475...282152...56
Diarrhoea794534...............502225......11......2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1515..................5217...21...2...5
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary152...1134253358792893241314...5133
„ Non-Pulmonary27...95661...864721525114
Pneumonia, Acute Primary, or Acute Influenzal151527111831342563229543269619161
Totals2387182812853217178984710245632365095533826813620237981

(h) Cases of Infectious Disease are treated in the Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, whose Brook Hospital is situated in Kidbrooke.