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 Southwark, Borough of]
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Table 25.
Deaths in the Sanitary Area from the principal Zymotic Diseases in the various wards for 1917.
Ward. | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria | Whooping Cough. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhœa. | Phthisis. | Pneumonia & Bronchitis. | Heart Disease. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
St. Mary | - | 8 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 61 | 76 | 25 |
St. Paul | — | 6 | — | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 47 | 76 | 32 |
St. Peter | — | 9 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 31 | 55 | 19 |
St. John | 7 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 12 | 41 | 72 | 32 | |
Trinity | — | 5 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 7 | 23 | 61 | 25 |
All Saints | — | 5 | — | 5 | 3 | — | 15 | 44 | 77 | 14 |
St. Michael | — | 6 | — | 7 | 4 | — | 15 | 52 | 81 | 35 |
St. Jude | — | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — | 6 | 25 | 62 | 20 |
St. George | — | 20 | — | 5 | 6 | — | 18 | 27 | 75 | 22 |
Christchurch ... | — | 3 | — | 4 | 1 | — | 3 | 23 | 37 | 20 |
St. Saviour | — | 5 | — | 3 | 1 | — | 18 | 39 | 12 | |
Borough | - | 75 | 7 | 46 | 35 | 5 | 108 | 392 | 711 | 256 |