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Southwark 1921

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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Table: TABLE 18.Cases of Infectious Disease.Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, during each week of the year 1921.

TABLE 18.

Cases of Infectious Disease.

Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, during each week of the year 1921.

Week Ending.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Enteric Fever.Cerebrospinal Fever.Polio-Encephalitis.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.Anthrax.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Phthisis.Other forms of Tuberculosis.Measles.Encephalitis Lethargica.Epidemic Diarrhsæa.Pneumonia.Polio-Myelitis.Malaria.Dysentery.Total.
1921
Jan. 826121..................112l.........5.........58
„ 151681.........2.........72...1...3......40
„ 222311......1...3.........16952...5......78
„ 29247............1.........7311...7......51
Feb. 5277......1...2.........22......8...1...51
„ 121610............1......15511...2......42
„ 193613............5.........924......2......72
„ 26315......1...3.........922......9...1...65
March 5256............1.........1027......7.........58
„ 123016............9.........1259......9.........83
„ 19182............2......1947......9.........52
„ 26233............4......3122......10.........57
April 2146............3......1316......11.........46
„ 9173............3.........1415......3.........47
„ 16226............1......112242...5.........55
,, 231212............1.........9521...5.........47
„ 30226............3.........949......9.........62
May 72010............4.........8361...4.........56
„ 14216............3......211217......5.........68
,, 21157......1...5.........11313......2.........57
,, 28275............31...28016......8.........75
June 4255............3......15428......2.........73
„ 11208............2......2815......1.........47
„ 182410............5............8413......1.........65
,, 25186............3.........8124......5.........65
July 21912...1......1.........6161...3...2...52
„ 9306............11......5311143.........65
„ 16218............2............911416......1...65
„ 231415...1......3.........1114...183.........72
„ 302512............31...11555...324...1...104
Aug. 6914............3.........7...1...43............79
„ 131914...............6......1932...311.........86
„ 20168............1.........836...361.........79
„ 27102............51...110.......61............90
Sept. 3215............2......292...511.........93
„ 101511............3.........731...374.........81
,, 172915............31......328...344.........101
„ 242411............31...2111......212.........76
Oct. 13911......1..................646...232.........92
„ 84815...............9.........416...31...1...81
,, 154018............2.........541......2.........74
,, 224021............61...18313......5.........98
„ 295323............3......11082......2.........102
Nov. 54513...1......41...16141...10.........99
„ 122611...1......1.........732......3.........56
„ 193219......1...62......1029......1.........82
„ 263614............3.........7418......5.........90
Dec. 32916...1......39......82149...10.........88
,, 102612...1......4......16324......7.........84
„ 171714............2.........6110:::...6.........57
„ 241814...1......1.........101291...17......93
„ 311310............32......3...10......25...1...67
Year1266534376...14417146430131405lb.40026118...3676