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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 1920
[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 upwards. | ||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 2 |
| Scarlet Fever | 348 | 3 | 66 | 237 | 35 | 7 | - | - | 116 | 151 | 81 | - | 348 | — | — | 334 |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 298 | 6 | 58 | 193 | 25 | 14 | 2 | - | 81 | 115 | 101 | 1 | 297 | - | 1 | 291 |
| Erysipelas | 56 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 11 | 26 | 15 | 13 | 1 | 54 | 2 | — | — |
| Puerperal Fever | 6 | — | — | — | 3 | 3 | — | — | 2 | 1 | — | 11 | 3 | 3* | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 3 | — | — | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis | None | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 17 | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 16 | 1 | — | — |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | See Women Inspector's Report. | |||||||||||||||
| Other Forms | ||||||||||||||||
| Measles, English | 80 | 4 | 44 | 28 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 29 | 24 | 27 | — | 80 | — | — | — |
| „ German | 13 | — | 7 | 6 | — | — | — | — | 10 | 3 | — | — | 13 | — | — | — |
| Influenza-Pneumonia | 22 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 14 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 22 | — | — | — |
| Acute Primary | 96 | 11 | 15 | 18 | 14 | 22 | 15 | 1 | 26 | 32 | 35 | 12 | 73 | 2 | — | — |
| Malaria | 9 | — | - | — | 1 | 8 | - | — | — | 3 | 6 | — | 9 | — | — | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
* Treated at Infirmary.
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 24 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.