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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 1917
[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 Year ending 29th December, 1917.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in whole District. | Total cases notified in each locality. | Number of cases removed to Hospital from each locality. | Cases isolated at home | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At ages—years. | All Souls | St. Mary | Christ Church | St. John | Totals. | Souls | St. Mary | Christ Church | St. John | Totals | ||||||||
| Under | 1 to 5 | 6 to 16 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 15 | 45 to 65 | 5 and upwards | |||||||||||||
| Diphtheria, including Membranous Croup | 168 | 2 | 56 | 75 | 22 | 12 | ... | 1 | 39 | 29 | 77 | 23 | 168 | 38 | 26 | 72 | 21 | 157 | 11 |
| Erysipelas | 54 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 19 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 25 | 9 | 54 | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 2 | 52 |
| Scarlet Fever | 94 | ... | 21 | 34 | 25 | 14 | ... | ... | 35 | 25 | 25 | 9 | 94 | 35 | ... | 19 | 8 | 84 | 10 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 21 | 21 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 20 |
| Enteric Fever | 5 | ... | ... | ... | 3 | 1 | 1 | ... | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ... | 2 | ... | ... | 2 | 3 |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | 2 | ... | 5 | ... | 7 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | 2 | 5 |
| Tuberculosis Pulmonary | 392 | ... | 7 | 62 | 61 | 158 | 97 | 7 | 91 | 100 | 139 | 62 | 392 | 13 | 33 | 25 | 11 | 82 | 310 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 43 | 1 | 6 | 22 | 5 | 6 | 3 | ... | 14 | 5 | 18 | 6 | 43 | 4 | ... | 5 | 1 | 10 | 33 |
| Measles | 1597 | 66 | 651 | 577 | 161 | 119 | 21 | 2 | 266 | 293 | 727 | 311 | 1597 | 35 | 21 | 50 | 8 | 114 | 1483 |
| German Measles | 539 | 9 | 58 | 140 | 161 | 160 | 10 | 1 | 125 | 141 | 113 | 160 | 539 | 20 | 11 | 8 | 26 | 65 | 474 |
| Measles (Notified by Parents) . | 35 | 1 | 16 | 15 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 6 | 20 | 8 | 35 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 34 |
| Totals . | 2957 | 103 | 819 | 933 | 447 | 487 | 153 | 15 | 588 | 620 | 1154 | 595 | 2957 | 147 | 115 | 182 | 76 | 520 | 2437 |
| 2957 | |||||||||||||||||||