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Enfield 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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ENFIELD ZYMOTIC DEATH-RATE.
The zymotic death-rate, after deducting 16 deaths of persons from outside the District who died in the Isolation Hospital (which is situate in Enfield), and adding one Enfield resident who died outside the District, is 0.87 per thousand.
| Disease. | 1913. | 1914. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Death-rate. | Deaths. | Death-rate. | |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | .01 | 3 | .04 |
| Diphtheria | 6 | .10 | 15 | .24 |
| Enteric Fever | 0 | .00 | 2 | .03 |
| Erysipelas | 0 | .00 | 0 | .00 |
| Measles | 8 | .13 | 8 | .13 |
| Whooping Cough | 3 | .05 | 8 | .13 |
| Epidemic Enteritis | 13 | .22 | 17 | .28 |
| 31 | .52 | 53 | .87 | |
A zymotic death-rate of 087 in a District of the size of Enfield
signifies two things; first, that the type of infectious disease prevalent
in the District is a mild one as a whole, and, secondly, that the
treatment given by the Staff of the Isolation Hospital is exceedingly
efficient, which, no doubt, is in a great measure due to the very
effective and constant attention given by the Medical Superintendent.
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
The cases of Infectious Disease notified each quarter in the
various wards are as set out in the accompanying table:—