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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

Stoke Newington 1912

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: Deaths from Zymotic Diseases (including Influenza, Puerperal Fever, and Erysipelas) in the Year 19:2.

Deaths from Zymotic Diseases (including Influenza, Puerperal Fever, and Erysipelas) in the Year 19:2.

Scarlet Fever.JDiphtheria.Small Pox.Enteric Fever.Puerperal Fever.Measles.Whooping Cough.Diarrhoea and Dysentery.Influenza.Erysipelas.Total.
First Quarter..................123...6
Second ,,...............1...2...14
Third ,,...............2...2......4
Fourth „1.........1312......8
1.........16283122
191133...1...2719272789

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ZYMOTIC DIARRHÈŒA.
As pointed out in my last annual Report, there is a district
which is (roughly speaking) enclosed by Church Path, Clissold
Road, Cowper Road, and Watson Street, inside of which almost
half of the total deaths from Zymotic Diarrhoea during the past
eight years have occurred, and practically the whole of the
mortality occurs in August and September.
As in former years, this area was specially scavenged during
August and September of last year, and arrangements were also
made for the weekly flushing of the gullies situated in different
courts. As the weather conditions in July appeared to indicate
the likelihood of the continuance of climatic conditions which
would indirectly give rise to a considerable amount of summer
diarrhoea, 4,000 revised handbills upon this disease (a copy of
which is appended to this Report) were at once distributed at the
houses belonging to the poorer section of the community.