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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 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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and i cerebro-spinal fever. The last case, an Enfield man, was transferred to
the Edmonton Old Infirmary and there died.
The deaths that occurred in the Edmonton Military Hospital totalled 34—
28 from wounds and 6 from disease. Besides three deaths of Edmonton persons
received from the Registrar General; of one each from wounds or disease in the
military hospitals at Leeds and Hackney, and one civilian in a Zeppelin raid.
So that, including the cerebro-spinal fever, 38 deaths of our people must be
credited to the Great War.