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Stoke Newington 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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The Infectious Sickness Rate of the Borough, excluding the
notifications from Tuberculosis, Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, Acute
Polio-Myelitis, Encephalitis and Ophthalmia, so as to make the
rate comparable with that of former years, was 4.0 to each 1,000
of the population, as against 3.1 for the preceding year.
Year.
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
Infectious Sickness
Rate.
3.8
5.4
8.0
12.1
5.1
3.1
4.0
TABLE III.
Annual Death Rates per 1,000 of Population from Infectious Diseases, 1924.
| Enteric Fever | Small Pox | Measles | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stoke Newington | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.02 | 0.06 | 0.09 | 0.28 |
| London | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.29 | 0.03 | 0.11 | 0.12 | 0.36 |
| England and Wales | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.12 | 0.02 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.49 |