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Shoreditch 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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TABLE III.
BOEOUGH OP SHOREDITCH.
Cases of infectious disease notified during the Year 1904.
| Notifiable Disease | Cases notified in Whole District. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | 1. Shoreditch South. | 2. Hox on New Town | 3. Hoxton Old Town. | 4. Haggers-ton. | 1. Shoreditch South. | 2. Hoxton New Town. | 3. Hoxton Old Town. | 4 Haggers-ton. | ||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||||
| Small-pox | 14 | 3 | l | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | l | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| Cholera | |||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 180 | 11 | 85 | 60 | 17 | 7 | 28 | 40 | 30 | 82 | 28 | 38 | 29 | 78 | |
| Membranous croup | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 183 | 7 | 21 | 25 | 108 | 12 | 32 | 50 | 42 | 59 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |
| Scarlet fever | 343 | 5 | 112 | 195 | 23 | 8 | 55 | 79 | 69 | 140 | 52 | 78 | 67 | 135 | |
| Typhus fever | |||||||||||||||
| Enteric fever | 48 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 24 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 22 | |||
| Relapsing fever | — | ||||||||||||||
| Continued fever | |||||||||||||||
| Puerperal fever | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Plague | |||||||||||||||
| *Chicken pox | 302 | 30 | 160 | 109 | 3 | 35 | 94 | 79 | 94 | ||||||
| Totals | 1078 | 56 | 307 | 405 | 89 | 146 | 12 | 166 | 276 | 230 | 406 | 93 | 131 | 105 | 246 |
* Chicken pox was notifiable in London from the first week of April until the first week of November, 1904.