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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
Hornsey 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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The occurrences of the cases in the different Wards and the number notified during each quarter of the year were as follows:—
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Malaria. | Dysentery | Puerperal Fever. | Erysi pelas. | Ophth. Neon. | Pneumonia. | Cerebro Spinal Fever. | Encephalitis Lethargiea. | Polio-myelitis- | Tuberculosis. | Total. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phthisis | Other forms. | ||||||||||||||
| Highgate | 22 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 69 |
| Huswell Hill | 37 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 68 |
| Crouch End | 18 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 38 |
| West Hornsey | 54 | 32 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 4 | 150 |
| East Hornsey | 50 | 50 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 158 |
| North Haringey | 19 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 74 |
| South Haringey | 11 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 31 |
| Stroud Green | 22 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 57 |
| Finsbury Park | 12 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 52 |
| Total | 245 | 149 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 8 | 98 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 126 | 16 | 697 |
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric Fever. | Malaria. | Dysentery. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Ophth. Neon. | Pneumonia. | Cerebro Spinal Fever. | Encephalitis Lethar- | Poliomyelitis. | Tuberculosis. | Total. | ||
| Phthisis. | Other forms. | ||||||||||||||
| 1st quarter | 61 | 62 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 55 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 4 | 235 |
| 2nd quarter | 55 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 6 | 162 |
| 3rd quarter | 33 | 29 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 3 | 116 |
| 4th quarter | 96 | 30 | 3 | 2 | I | 0 | 7 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 24 | 3 | 184 |
| Total | 245 | 149 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 27 | 8 | 98 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 126 | 16 | 697 |