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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
Ruislip-Northwood 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ruislip]
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TABLE II.
CASES OF INFEC TIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1913.
| Notifiable Disease | Number of Cases Notified | Total cases removed to Hospital | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages | At Ages—Years | ||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 25 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards. | |||
| Small-pox | |||||||||
| Cholera | |||||||||
| Diphtheria (including membranous croup) | 17 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 15 | |||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Scarlet fever | 22 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 3 | ||||
| Typhus fever | |||||||||
| Enteric fever | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Relapsing fever | |||||||||
| Continued fever | |||||||||
| Puerperal fever | |||||||||
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | |||||||||
| Poliomyelitis | |||||||||
| Pulmonary Tub-culosis | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Totals | 49 | 1 | 5 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 18 | |
Isolation Hospital—Uxbridge Joint Hospital, Hillingdon, Uxbridge.
Total available beds 40; cots 34.
Number of Diseases that can be concurrently treated, 2.