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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
Edmonton 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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TABLE III. CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1905.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | Total Cases Notified in Each Locality. | No. of Cases Removed to Hospital from each locality. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Bury Street Ward. | Church Street Ward. | Fore Street Ward. W (2) | All Ages. | Bury Street Ward. | Church Street Ward. | Fore Street, Ward W (2) | ||||||
| Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | |||||||||
| Small-pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diphtheria | 35 | 1 | 10 | 17 | 2 | 5 | — | 12 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 4 |
| Membranous croup | 2 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 66 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 41 | 5 | 25 | 17 | 24 | — | — | — | — |
| Scarlet fever | 259 | 2 | 71 | 165 | 15 | 6 | — | 105 | 104 | 50 | 209 | 92 | 85 | 32 |
| Typhus fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Enteric fever | 44 | — | 3 | 16 | 11 | 14 | — | 14 | l6 | 14 | 30 | 11 | 12 | 7 |
| Relapsing fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Continued fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Puerperal fever | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Plague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | 409 | 4 | 89 | 205 | 39 | 67 | 5 | 156 | 151 | 102 | 259 | 109 | 106 | 44 |
Isolation Hospitals—Clarehall Smallpox Hospital, South MimmsR.D.; Enfield Urban District Council's Isolation Hospital, Enfield, U.D.