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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
Enfield 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]
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The following table gives the number of cases of each infectious disease notified during the past five years :—
| Disease. | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 98 | 221 | 148 | ||
| Diphtheria | 72 | 84 | |||
| Membranous Croup | |||||
| Enteric Fever | 8 | 2 | 18 | ||
| Small Pox | |||||
| Erysipelas | 40 | ||||
| Continued Fever | |||||
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | ||||
| Cerebro Spinal Fever | |||||
| Poliomyelitis | |||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | |||||
| 223 | 226 | 279 | 309 |
SCARLET FEVER.
This disease showed a very considerable diminution in the number of cases as compared with the previous year—148 against 221. These 148 cases occurred in 103 houses, as follows :—
| No. of houses where 1 case occurred | 92 |
| „ „ „ 2 „ „ | 5 |
| „ „ „ 3 „ „ | 3 |
| „ „ „ 4 „ „ | 1 |
| „ „ „ 5 „ „ | 1 |
| „ „ „ 28 „ „ ...(a school) | 1 |
| Total number of houses where cases occurred | 103 |
| Total number of cases 148 | |