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Shoreditch 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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III.—INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

Table: Notifiable Disease.Excluding' tuberculosis, the deaths during the year from notifiable infectious diseases numbered 158 (12"8 per cent, of the total deaths. The corresponding number for 1930 was 140 (11*6 per cent, of total deaths). * The following table shows the numbers of cases of infectious disease (tuberculosis excluded) notified in the Borough, together with distributionas to quarter, age and Ward :—

Notifiable Disease.

Excluding' tuberculosis, the deaths during the year from notifiable infectious diseases numbered 158 (12"8 per cent, of the total deaths. The corresponding number for 1930 was 140 (11*6 per cent, of total deaths). * The following table shows the numbers of cases of infectious disease (tuberculosis excluded) notified in the Borough, together with distribution

as to quarter, age and Ward :—

NOTIFIABLE DISEASE.1st Quarter2nd Quarter3rd Quarter4th QuarterTotalAGES.WARDS.Cases removed to HospitalDiagnosis > evised subsequentlyDeaths
IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIII
Under 1 year1 to 55 to 1515 to 25 1-25 to 4545 to 6565Moor-fieldsChurchHoxtonWen-lockWhit-nioreKings-landHagger-stonActon
22116......4...2............213.........6l1
Small-pox149213312256393619152i191041956581227...
7755719529861061542?10......1051513843354o2429635...
Diphtheria90536169273101061301395...1544545438213314273457
Acute primary pneumonia2569155511196121242142816211...24)......
Acute influenzal.........11 n...0...2231...111...532......138
pneumonia Erysipelas1710111351243118167371411544322...7
Puerperal fever12...69.........45.........2212...2...6......
Puerperal pyrexia355316.........88.........42422...212......
Cerebro-spinal fever5.........5221............1......31.........5...5
Encephalitis Lethargica...1113.........111......1...2............3......
Ophthalmia neonatorum2411133030.....................33757234......
Dysentery12......3...11......1...2...1...............1......
Totals24223218322488156238341103765314341461421351341291055677688158
Numbers and217213j 160186776Note.—The following diseases are notifiable :—
percentages of cases moved to \ Hospitals.89 7%1 91*3%87'4% '83'0%|88'1 °/cSmall-pox, cholera, diphtheria, erysipelas, scarlet fever, typhus fever, typhoid fevers, relapsing fever, continued fever, puerperal fever, puerperal pyrexia, plague, cerebro spinal meningitis, acute polio encephalitis and poliomyelitis, encephalitis lethargica, glanders, anthrax, hydrophobia, malaria, dysentery, acute primary pneumonia, acute influenzal pneumonia, ophthalmia neonatorum.