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Shoreditch 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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III. INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Notifiable Disease
Excluding tuberculosis, the deaths during the year from notifiable infectious diseases numbered 140 (11.6 per cent. of total deaths). The
corresponding number for 1929 was 177 (11.1 per cent. of total deaths.)

Table: The following tableshows the numbersofeases of infectious disease (tuberculosis excluded) notified in the Borough, together with distributionastoquarter, age and Ward:—

The following tableshows the numbersofeases of infectious disease (tuberculosis excluded) notified in the Borough, together with distributionastoquarter, age and Ward:—

NOTIFIABLE DISEASE.NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED.
1st Quarter2nd Quarter3rd Quarter4th QuarterTotalAGES.WARDS.Cases removed to Hospital.Diagnosis revised subsequently.Deaths.
Under 1 year.1 to 5.5 to 1515 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIII
Moor- fields.Church.Hoxton.Wen-lock.Whit-more.Kings-land.Haggerston.Acton
Chicken pox12220253...3772212422452......11776594652129152l...
Enteric fever.........44...11...11...............13......4l...
Small-pox3782747660788167531219513058212158161401229115252788292
Scarlet fever1038412012743481672183092...1782674973417035429501
Diphtheria113718478346917412117214...22656844473734292442020
Acute primary pneumonia371911259272518101413522169231181250
Acute influenzal pneumonia3...2...5...1......121...11...12............107
Erysipelas131913226763116132351147141186635...4
Puerperal fever Puerperal31116.........33.........312............524
pyrexia Cerebro-spinal826723.........617.........8223323153...
fever Acute.....................................................................
Poliomyelitis Encephalitis.....................................................................
Lethargica Ophthalmia2......35.........212......3............2...222
neonatorum106852929.....................74314732......
Dysentery2......35...1...13.........2.........3......51...
Totals7946783743352,18197571905275215105136544138225734722431011551,681109140
Numbers and6354462993011,681
percentages of cases moved to hospitals.79.9%65.8%79.9%89.8%77.1%