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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

Shoreditch 1901

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: TABLE III.BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.Cases of infectious disease notified during the Year 1901.

TABLE III.

BOROUGH OF SHOREDITCH.

Cases of infectious disease notified during the Year 1901.

Notifiable Disease.Cases notified in Whole District.Total Cases Notifed in each Locality.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each locality.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.1. Shoreditch South.2. Hoxton New Town,3. Hoxton Old Town.4. Haggerston.1. Shoreditch South.2. Hoxton New Town.3. Hox on Old Town.4. Haggerston.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.
Small-pox2122377......2109...2109
Cholera.............................................
Diphtheria31071361043528...445765144414862110
Membranous croup6...6..................15.........1
Erysipelas142391115901419273561...1...3
Scarlet fever557131932755125...835874342705369300
Typhus fever.............................................
Enteric fever9615312831...1136262311282318
Relapsing fever..........................................
Continued fever7...2...23...16......15......
Puerperal fever7.........25......232.........
Plague..........................................
Totals11462635342414018914158188214586123137164441