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Shoreditch 1914

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: Subjoined is a list of the infectious diseases which are notifiable, excluding pulmonary tuberculosis, showing the numbers of cases certified in the Borough for each of the four quarters of the year, and the numbers and percentage of the cases removed to hospital:—

Subjoined is a list of the infectious diseases which are notifiable, excluding pulmonary tuberculosis, showing the numbers of cases certified in the Borough for each of the four quarters of the year, and the numbers and percentage of the cases removed to hospital:—

Disease.First Quarter.Second Quarter.Third Quarter.Fourth Quarter.Total.Deaths.
Small Pox..................
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina7677941824295
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup4643557321720
Typhus Fever..................
Cholera..................
Enteric Fever (Typhoid)3...79192
Continued Fever.........11...
Relapsing Fever..................
Puerperal Fever3323112
Erysipelas524738601978
Plague..................
Cerebro-Spinal Fever...11132
Glanders..................
Anthrax1.........1...
Hydrophobia..................
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis.........11...
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1105925...
Totals18218120233990439
Numbers and percent ages of cases removed to hospitals.143133176271723...
78.6%73.4%87.1%79.9%79.9%...

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As compared with the figures for 1913, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and erysipelas
shew marked increases. Although the cases of notifiable infectious disease were
more numerous than for last year, none the less they were below the average for
the past twenty-five years.
The deaths from the principal zymotic diseases which are notifiable, namely,
small pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria and enteric fever were at the rate of 0.24 per
1,000 population, whereas the rate for the principal zymotic diseases which are not
notifiable, namely measles, whooping cough and diarrhoea was 2.6 or more than
ten times as great.
ISOLATION OF INFECTIOUS CASES.
Cases of smallpox, scarlet fever, and diphtheria removed to hospital, are
with very few exceptions, taken to the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
Cases of enteric fever, puerperal fever, and erysipelas not infrequently go into the