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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
London County Council 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Year. | Four week period. | Boroughs with more than 30 cases in any four week period. | Concurrent prevalences in other boroughs affecting the same or an adjacent period. | Notes on the prevalences in columns 3 and 4, with observations on other special features in the year in question. |
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| 1900 | 1-4 | Stepney 38 | Hack. 27, St. Pan. 25, Isl. 25, Pop. 29, Lambeth 27 | Grouping again. 11 cases during year at St. Mary's G. Sch. (Isl.). 5 cases in Hamm. Prison (weeks 1-8). 9 cases in Mdsx. Cty. Asy. (Wands.) in 1st 8 mos. Groups in St. Pan. and Pop. (weeks 21-32). |
| 37-40 | S'wark 115, Berm. 36, Lamb. 58 | Chel. 22, Wands. 19, Step. 27, G'wch. 17 | The first outbreak definitely traced to fried fish (Ann. Rep., Lond., 1900, App. I.). Only 3 prevalences—S'wark, Lamb, and Chelsea— were located at the time. It is now probable that other simultaneous groups of cases in Ful., Hamm., Isl., Hack., Shor., Beth. Gr., Step., Berm., Batt., G'wch., Wands., and perhaps others were similarly caused. | |
| 41-44 | Hack. 37, Step. 45, Camb. 31 | - | ||
| 45-48 | St. Pan. 86, Isl. 35 | Westmr. 20, Fins. 18, Shor. 21, Beth. Gr. 24 | ||
| 49-52 | Camb. 34 | Kens. 19, Lamb. 29, G'wch. 20 | ||
| 1901 | 1-4 | Stepney 34 | St. Pan. 20, Beth. Gr. 16, Camb. 20, Isl. 27 | 3 cases in H.M. Prison (Wands.). Grouping in Islington. |
| 33-36 | Islington 40 | Ful. 36, Shor. 15, S'wark 18 | Fulham (Ann. Rep., Lond., p. 40), Isl., Hack, and Shor. show grouping. Some cockle cases in Westminster. | |
| 37-40 | Stepney 48, Poplar 34 | Hack. 29, Lamb. 24, Camb. 27 | Well marked groups in Stepney, Poplar, Hackney, Islington, Bermondsey and Camberwell. | |
| 41-44 | Islington 34 | Hack. 27, Bermondsey 26 | ||
| 1902 | 29-32 | Islington 30 | Step. 28, Pop. 26, Lamb. 22, Fins. 18, Westmr. (Strand) | Dr. Allan (Strand) reported 30 oases due to shell fish, mainly cockles. (Ann. Rep., Lond., pp. 59-60.) |
| 33-36 | Stepney 40 | Southwark 27 | - | |
| 37-40 | Islington 51, Poplar 39 | Hack. 30, Lamb. 29, St. Pan. 28, Beth. Gr. 28, Shor. 24 | Grouping in most of these boroughs. | |
| 41-44 | Hackney 32, Lambeth 30 | Wands. 25, Camb. 20, G'wch. 27 | Grouping in most of these boroughs. | |
| 1903 | 25-28 | - | - | Grouping in Ful., Isl., Hack, and Stoke Newington. |
| 33-36 | Hackney 45 | Islington 23 | Grouping in Hack., Isl., Step., Shor., Stoke N. and S'wark. | |
| 37-40 | Stepney 45 | Fulham 15, Stoke N. 11, Shor. 20 | Grouping in Hack., Isl., Step., Shor., Stoke N. and S'wark. | |
| 45-48 | Southwark 34 | Lamb. 24, Camb. 18, Hack. 22, Holborn 17 | The second outbreak traced to fried fish in Holb., Westmr. and S'wark. It appears probable now that other parts of London were simultaneously involved. | |
| 1904 | 33-36 | St. Pancras 37 | - | - |
| 37-40 | Hackney 38, Stepney 37 | Islington 28, Southwark 14 | Grouping marked and continued in Stepney in weeks 41-48. | |
| 1905 | 37-40 | - | - | Grouping in Hack, and S'wark and continued in Hack, in weeks 45-48. |
| 1906 | 25-28 | - | - | Isl. 21, Fins. 11. These coincident with groups in W. Ham, Walthamstow and Lambeth. ? Fish or cockles. |
| 37-40 | - | - | 5 cases in Wandsworth Prison (13 in all during the year). | |
| 1907 | 33-36 | - | - | 3 groups in Batt. (Ann. Rep., Lond., p. 42). 4 cases in Wands. Prison during the year. |
| 1908 | - | - | - | During weeks 33-52, 72 cases in Shor. and 55 in Beth. Gr. (Ann. Rep., Lond., p. 41, where it is shown fish was at fault). Other cases in Isl., Hack., Lamb., etc., may have been due to same cause. |
| 1909 | - | - | - | No autumnal increase in prevalence this year. |
| 1910 | 37-40 | Bethnal Green 44 | Step. 37, Shor. 18. Groups in 7 other London boroughs and in Tottenham and Edmonton | These outbreaks were all traced to fish. (See Ann. Rep., Lond., 1910, p. 100, and 1911, p. 35), where it is shown that 33 distinct retail supplies were at fault. 4 cases in Wandsworth Prison during the year. |
| 1911 | 33-36 | Finsbury 32 | - | In Aug. 20 cockle cases in London. The Fins, outbreak in Sept. and possibly some of the other groups were due to fish. (Ann. Rep., Lond., p. 34). 4 cases occurred in Wandsworth Prison this year. |
| 37-40 | - | Fins. 29, St. Pan. 18, S'wark 13, Lew. 12 | ||
| 1912 | - | - | - | Autumnal increase in prevalence disappears from now onward. |
| 1913 | - | - | - | 3 cases in H.M. Prison, Wandsworth. |
| 1914 | - | - | - | Groups of cases in Isl., St. Pan., Fulham, Lew., Wands. (Ann Rep., Lond., p. 20). 11 cases occurred in Poland St. Refuge, Westminster. |
| 1915 | - | - | - | 7 cases in the year at Mdsx. County Asy, Wandsworth. |
| 1916 | - | - | - | 5 cases during weeks 25-32 at Fountain Asy., Wandsworth. |
| 1917 | - | - | - | 11 cases traced to oysters. 4 further cases in Mdsx. Cty. Asy., Wands. |
| 1918 | - | - | - | Two groups of "paratyphoid B." Probably really cases of influenza. |
| 1919 | - | - | - | Multiple cases in houses in Pop., G'wch. and Wool. (Ann. Rep., London, pp. 9-10.) |
| 1920 | - | - | - | Some 20 cases of " paratyphoid B " among students at a Ladies' College. |
| 1921 | - | - | - | Multiple cases in houses in Kens., Step., and Pop. (Ann. Rep., Lond., p. 11). |
| 1922 | - | - | - | A few small groups of cases referred to in Annual Report. |
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