London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Greenwich 1949

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

This page requires JavaScript

Table: CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE notified during the Year ended 31st December, 1949.

CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE notified during the Year ended 31st December, 1949.

Notifiable DiseaseCases Notified in Whole DistrictTotal Cases Notified in each LocalityNo. of Cases removed to Hospital from each LocalityTotal
Age & Sex GroupGreenwich EastGreenwich WestSt. NicholasCharlton and KidbrookeGreenwich EastGreenwich WestSt. NicholasCharlton and Kidbrooke
At all Ages0 to 11 to 33 to 56 to 1010 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and over
MFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMF
Small-Pox.......................................................................................
Chicken-Pox.......................................................................................
Diphtheria111....................................1............11.........1......1
Dysentery2...1...1.............................................1......11......12
Erysipelas812......1...............2.........241622122...67......411
Acute Polio-Mylelitis22...11...1......1....................................13......123
Scarlet Fever6563......1361113313865311...............542074724711244
Enteric Fever11......1..............................1............11......11......2
Scabies59..................1311...12311......9212...............
Puerperal Pyrexia...4.................................l...3...............112...1...23
Cerebro Spinal Fever.......................................................................................
Malaria.......................................................................................
Measles427362121513410912998143131256311............332199242348322639
Whooping Cough1138157412129313821...1........................71311280342413
Diarrhoea71156241....................................7434623415
Ophthalmia Neonatorum...1...1................................................1........................
Pneumonia, Acute Primary or Acute Influenzal151511...2...12.........2223652189582...237
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary71461223111313151325161857...313065010711735
„ Non Pulmonary37...............1............121212......26...224...17
Totals720615263319614517114621619712152723343427191135303066043964301276182

Text

Copy text to clipboard

NOTE:—The above Table refers to "Corrected Notifications" only, i.e. all cases in which diagnosis was not confirmed have been ignored,