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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
Erith 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]
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Table II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1919.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of cases notified. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages—Years. | At all Ages. | ||||||||
| Under | 1 and under 5 years. | 5 and under 15 yrs. | 15 and under 25 yrs. | 25 and under 45 yrs. | 45 and under 65 yrs. | 65 and upwards. | |||
| Diphtheria | 10 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 31 | 30 | |||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 9 | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 13 | 47 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 74 | 66 | |
| Enteric Fever | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Measles | 73 | 145 | 6 | 1 | 236 | 1 | |||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | 9 | |||||||
| Pneumonia and Influenzal Pneumonia | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 43 | |
| Malaria | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Cerebrospinal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Tuberculosis: — | |||||||||
| Pulmonary | 1 | 12 | 25 | 41 | 6 | 1 | 86 | ||
| Other forms | 1 | 6 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 36 | ||
| Totals | 24 | 106 | 259 | 50 | 77 | 14 | 6 | 536 | 100 |
Isolation Hospital or Hospitals, Sanatoria, &c.
Erith Sanatorium, various London General Hospitals and Special
Hospitals, Sanatoria at Bromley, &c.
Joyce Green M.A.B. Hospital, Dartford.