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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
Southwark 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for the Borough of Southwark, during the year 1913, occurring in the several wards:—
| WARD. | Typhus Fever. | Polio-Encephalitis. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Smallpox. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Diphtheria. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Memb. Croup. | Cerebrospinal Fever. | Phthisis. | Other forms of Tuberculosis. | Continued Fever. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Mary | 1 | - | 5 | - | 106 | 5 | 28 | 22 | - | - | - | 102 | 38 | 1 | 308 |
| St. Paul | - | - | 5 | 1 | 56 | 6 | 28 | 28 | 2 | - | - | 87 | 21 | - | 234 |
| St. Peter | - | - | 3 | - | 78 | 2 | 42 | 33 | 4 | - | 1 | 68 | 51 | - | 282 |
| St. John | - | - | 11 | - | 139 | 8 | 29 | 21 | 2 | - | - | 76 | 44 | - | 330 |
| Trinity | - | - | 5 | - | 77 | 5 | 23 | 16 | - | - | - | 69 | 29 | - | 224 |
| All Saints | - | - | 4 | - | 112 | 1 | 45 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 64 | 46 | 1 | 297 |
| St. Michael | - | - | 9 | - | 87 | 4 | 29 | 44 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 110 | 52 | - | 338 |
| St. Jude | - | - | 5 | - | 67 | 3 | 29 | 19 | 1 | - | - | 59 | 22 | - | 205 |
| St. George | - | - | 5 | - | 87 | 5 | 30 | 25 | 2 | - | 1 | 73 | 40 | - | 268 |
| Christchurch | - | - | 1 | - | 26 | - | 10 | 13 | - | - | - | 31 | 11 | - | 92 |
| - | - | 2 | - | 45 | - | 31 | 22 | 1 | - | - | 36 | 13 | - | 150 | |
| Borough | 1 | - | 55 | 1 | 880 | 39 | 324 | 260 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 775 | 367 | 2 | 2728 |