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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
Marylebone 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the 52 Weeks ending 25TH December, 1915.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in whole District. | Total cases notified in each locality. | Number of cases removed to Hospit al from each locality. | Cases isolated at home | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At ages—years. | All Souls | St. Mary | Christ Church | St. John | Totals. | All Souls | St. Mary | Christ Church | St. John | Totals | ||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 46 | 46 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||||||||||||
| Anthrax | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ... |
| Polio Myelitis | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 |
| Diphtheria, including Membranous Croup | 138 | 7 | 63 | 45 | 14 | 16 | 3 | ... | 32 | 32 | 56 | 18 | 138 | 31 | 30 | 56 | 16 | 133 | 5 |
| Erysipelas | 85 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 27 | 25 | 14 | 11 | 20 | 47 | 7 | 85 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 20 | 65 |
| Scarlet Fever | 308 | 1 | 77 | 158 | 32 | 38 | 2 | ... | 81 | 53 | 97 | 77 | 308 | 81 | 50 | 96 | 71 | 298 | 10 |
| Chicken Pox | 152 | 13 | 75 | 60 | 3 | 1 | ... | ... | 19 | 33 | 79 | 21 | 152 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 2 | 38 | 114 |
| Enteric Fever | 11 | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 8 | 1 | ... | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | i | 7 | 4 |
| Ophthalmia | 14 | 14 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 9 | 2 | ... | 14 | ... | 4 | ... | ... | 4 | 10 |
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | 3 | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | 3 | ... |
| Continued (Paratyphoid) Fever | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ... | ... | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| Tuberculosis Pulmonary | 329 | ... | 5 | 26 | 54 | 139 | 91 | 14 | 60 | 92 | 140 | 37 | 329 | 20 | 41 | 33 | 6 | 100 | 229 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 56 | 3 | 11 | 29 | 5 | 5 | ... | 3 | 14 | 7 | 26 | 9 | 56 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 13 | 43 |
| Totals | 1109 | 41 | 227 | 326 | 121 | 241 | 122 | 31 | 225 | 255 | 456 | 173 | 1109 | 153 | 154 | 219 | 100 | 626 | 483 |
| 1109 | |||||||||||||||||||