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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 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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| Notifiable Diseases. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total cases notified in each Ward or Institution. | Total Cases Removed to Hospitals. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Bury Street Ward. | Church Street Ward. | Fore Street Ward | Residents Edmonton Infirmary. | Total Residents. | Others in Edmonton Infirmary | Epileptic Colony. | ||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 and under 5 | 5 and under 15 | 15 and under 25 | 25 and under 45 | 45 and under 65 | 65 and up wards. | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Enteric Fever | None | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 620 | 3 | 143 | 425 | 37 | 12 | — | — | 195 | 254 | 169 | — | 619 | — | 1 | 595 |
| Diphtheria (including Membraneous croup) | 109 | 2 | 32 | 69 | 4 | 2 | — | — | 25 | 41 | 32 | 1 | 108 | 1 | — | 102 |
| Erysipelas | 55 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 20 | 19 | 13 | 3 | 52 | 3 | - | — |
| Puerperal Fever | 6 | — | — | — | 1 | 5 | — | — | 3 | — | 1 | 11 | 4 | 2* | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | None | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis | None | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 15 | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 5 | 5 | — | 14 | 1 | — | — |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | See Women Inspector's Report. | |||||||||||||||
| Other Forms „ | ||||||||||||||||
| Measles, English | 2357 | 67 | 914 | 1354 | 15 | 7 | — | — | 887 | 701 | 768 | — | 2356 | — | 1 | — |
| „ German | 138 | 3 | 40 | 88 | 4 | 3 | — | — | 16 | 45 | 76 | — | 137 | 1 | — | — |
| Influenza-Pneumonia | 28 | — | — | 2 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 28 | — | — | — |
| Acute Primary „ | 74 | 2 | 13 | 21 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 20 | 21 | 31 | 4 | 72 | — | 2 | — |
| Malaria | 38 | — | — | — | 9 | 272 | 2 | — | 9 | 12 | 17 | — | 38 | — | — | — |
| Trench Fever | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | ||||||||||||||||
* Treated at Infirmary. ** One case complicated with dysentry.
The figures take account of any corrections made as a result of error in notification, or revision of diagnosis as a result of the further
course of the disease.
Isolation Hospitals and Sanatoria, etc.:—
1. Enfield and Edmonton joint isolation hospital at World's End, Winchmore Hill, is in the urban district of Enfield.
2. Clare Hall small-pox hospital and sanatorium for consumptive persons. This is situate in the South Mimms rural district
of Middlesex and belongs to the 18 Middlesex districts.
3. There is a building on Clavering's Farm, Edmonton, capable of taking 10 male and 6 female small-pox cases; is now
attached to No. 2.
Cases of infectious disease occurring amongst soldiers and sailors are NOT included in this table, but a separate statement
about these, as far as known, is given in the foreword.