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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 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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Deaths from Zymotic Diseases (including Influenza, Puerperal Fever, and Erysipelas) in the year 1915.
| Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Small Pox. | Knteric Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Measles. | Whooping Cough. | Diarrhoea and Dysentery. | Influenza. | Erysipelas. | Total. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Quarter | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | 15 | — | 3 | 11 | — | 33 |
| Second „ | 2 | — | — | — | — | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 20 |
| Third „ | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | a | 4 | 1 | — | 11 | |
| Fourth ., | 0 | 8 | — | 1 | _ | — | 1 | 1 | 5 | 18 | |
| 7 | 10 | — | 2 | — | 24 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 1 | 82 | |
| 1914 | 3 | 3 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 6 | 15 | G | 2 | 38 |
ZYMOTIC DIARRHOEA.
As pointed out in my last annual Report, there is a district
which is (roughly speaking) enclosed by Church Walk, Clissold
Road, Cowper Road, and Watsoni Street, inside of which almost
half of the total deaths from Zjmotic Diarrhoea during the past
nine years have occurred; and practically the whole of the mortality
occurs there 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 frequent flushing of the gullies situated in different
courts.
CONSUMPTION.
The death.rate for Consumption (Pulmonary Tuberculosis)
in the Borough for 1915 was 1.0 per 1,000, as against 1.5 for
London generally.