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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 1908

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: The cases of notifiable infectious disease numbered 1,028, being 237 less than in 1907. The number of cases annually certified since 1889,| and the attack-rates per 1,000 inhabitants, are contained in the following table : —

The cases of notifiable infectious disease numbered 1,028, being 237 less than in 1907. The number of cases annually certified since 1889,| and the attack-rates per 1,000 inhabitants, are contained in the following table : —

Year.Number of cases.Attack-rate per 1,000 inhabitants.
189011589.4
18918627.0
1892147812.0
1893198716.2
189111049.0
1 89.511579.4
1896147312.1
1897133110.9
18989607.8
189911169.2
19009898.1
190111469.8
1902123910.5
19036645.6
19047766.6
190511519.8
19069518.2
1907126510.8
190810288.8

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The cases of notifiable infectious disease certified in the Metropolis during
1908 amounted to 35,900, the attack-rate being 7.5 per 1,000 population, as
compared with 8.6 for 1907.

Table: Subjoined is a list of the infectious diseases which are notifiable to the Medical Officer of Health, showing the number of cases certified in the Borough for each of the four quarters of the year, and the numbers and percentages of such cases which were removed to hospital for treatment: —

Subjoined is a list of the infectious diseases which are notifiable to the Medical Officer of Health, showing the number of cases certified in the Borough for each of the four quarters of the year, and the numbers and percentages of such cases which were removed to hospital for treatment: —

Disease.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.Total.Deaths.
Small Pox............
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina1199917319959028
Diphtheria & Membranous Croup4545486420213
Typhus............
Cholera............
Enteric Fever (Typhoid)411345210111
Continued Fever............
Relapsing Fever............
Puerperal Fever23....52
Erysipelas233421461245
Plague............
Cerebro Spinal Fever131165
Totals1941952773621,02864
Numbers and percentages of cases removed tohospitals167156251309883
86%80%90%85%86%