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Southwark 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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TABLE 24.
Cases of Infectious Disease
Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for the Borough of Southwark, during the year 1915, occurring
in the several wards:—
| WARD. | Chicken Pox. | Anthrax. | Polio-Myelitis. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Smallpox. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Diphtheria. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Memb. Croup. | Cerebrospinal Fever. | Phthisis. | Other forms of Tuberculosis. | Continued Fever. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Maty | 38 | – | – | 11 | – | 80 | 1 | 38 | 25 | 4 | – | – | 96 | 26 | 1 | 320 |
| St. Paul | 19 | — | — | 6 | — | 51 | 9 | 35 | 18 | 3 | 2 | – | 59 | 19 | — | 222 |
| St. Peter | 48 | — | — | 6 | — | 45 | 4 | 52 | 42 | 4 | — | 2 | 55 | 25 | — | 283 |
| St. John | 49 | — | 1 | 14 | — | 61 | 1 | 40 | 29 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 62 | 23 | — | 292 |
| Trinity | 18 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 26 | 1 | 23 | 15 | 2 | — | 1 | 53 | 12 | — | 153 |
| All Saints | 33 | — | — | 5 | — | 50 | 1 | 35 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 70 | 23 | — | 247 |
| St. Michael | 41 | — | — | 2 | — | 40 | 3 | 44 | 37 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 80 | 28 | — | 283 |
| St. Jude | 40 | — | — | 3 | — | 30 | 3 | 23 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 53 | 22 | — | 191 |
| St. George | 23 | — | — | 5 | — | 33 | — | 39 | 26 | 2 | — | 3 | 54 | 19 | — | 204 |
| Christchurch | 15 | — | — | 2 | — | 21 | — | 20 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 30 | 10 | — | 117 |
| St. Saviour | 12 | — | — | 1 | — | 28 | — | 27 | 13 | — | 1 | 22 | 7 | — | 111 | |
| Borough | 336 | 1 | 1 | 56 | — | 465 | 23 | 376 | 254 | 26 | 11 | 25 | 634 | 214 | 1 | 2423 |