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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 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: TABLE II.Cases of infectious disease notified during the Year 1913 in the Borough of Shoreditch.

TABLE II.

Cases of infectious disease notified during the Year 1913 in the Borough of Shoreditch.

Notifiable Disease.Number of Cases Notified.Total Cases Notified in each Ward of the Borough.Total Cases Removed to Hospital.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.
Moorfields.Church.Hoxton.Wenlock.Whitmore.Kingsland.Haggerston.Acton.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65 and upwards.
Small-pox...................................................
Cholera (C), Plague (P)...................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous group)181107079148......933211636192819172
Erysipelas1519610164342252212317461221930
Scarlet Fever340488218264......1260524939213869332
Typhus fever...................................................
Enteric fever14......8231...421...124...13
Relapsing fever (R), Continued fever (C)1(C).........1...........................1...1
Puerperal fever9.........36.........3......3...127
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis413..................1...111......4
Polio-myelitis8...71...............111......233
Pulmonary Tuberculosis719523881098101622222115134120*145†795351278‡
Other forms of Tuberculosis18620359218146123720284818141923‡
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2222.....................44145221§
Totals1,635712324961893882114851277253233323157164174864

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* This Number includes the cases of consumption notified from the Holborn Union Infirmary. Highgate.
† This includes the cases of consumption in the Shoreditch Workhouse.
‡ Removed to the Shoreditch Infirmary, Hospitals and Sanatoria.
§ Removed to Moorfields Eye Hospital.