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Stoke Newington 1925

[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 32 to each 1,000
of the population, as against 40 for the preceding year.
Year. Infectious Sickness
Rate.
1919 5.4
1920 8.0
1921 12.1
1922 5.1
1923 3.1
1924 4.0
1925 3.2

TABLE III.

Annual Death Rates per 1,000 of Population from Infectious Diseases, 1925;

Enteric FeverSmall PoxMeaslesScarlet FeverWhooping CoughDiphtheriaInfluenza
Stoke Newington0.020.000.000.000.110.080.28
London0.010.000.080.020.190.110.23
England and Wales0.010.000.130.030.150.070.32