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Shoreditch 1933
[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 137 (11.3 per cent of the total deaths). The
corresponding number for 1932 was 129 (10.9 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. | NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Quarter | 2nd Quarter | 3rd Quarter | 4th Quarter | Total | AGES. | WARDS. | Cases removed to Hospital | Diagnosis evised subsequently | Deaths | ||||||||||||||
| I | II | III | IV | V | VI | VII | VIII | ||||||||||||||||
| Under 1 year | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 | Moor-fields | Church | Hoxton | Wen-lock | Whit-more | Kings-land | Hagger-ston | Acton | |||||||||
| Enteric fever | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | 2 | ... | ... |
| Small-pox | 3 | 17 | 6 | 3 | 29 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 4 | ... | ... | 16 | ... | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | ... | 29 | 5 | ... |
| Scarlet fever | 97 | 120 | 191 | 197 | 605 | 5 | 208 | 338 | 39 | 12 | 3 | ... | 18 | 80 | 118 | 87 | 102 | 61 | 85 | 54 | 598 | 38 | ... |
| Diphtheria | 64 | 78 | 88 | 124 | 354 | 5 | 115 | 181 | 31 | 18 | 4 | ... | 14 | 63 | 58 | 49 | 49 | 33 | 67 | 21 | 354 | 68 | 15 |
| Acute primary pneumonia | 11 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 28 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | ... | 105 | |
| Acute influenzal pneumonia | 28 | 2 | ... | 7 | 37 | ... | 2 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | ||
| Erysipelas | 12 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 60 | 2 | ... | 10 | 8 | 16 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 13 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 39 | ... | 5 |
| Puerperal fever | 1 | 2 | ... | 1 | 4 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 3 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 1 | 4 | ... | 4 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 7 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 31 | ... | ... | ... | 9 | 22 | ... | ... | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 24 | ... | 2 |
| Cerebro-spinal fever | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 13 | ... | 6 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 7 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 26 | 26 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | ... | ... |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | ... | 1 | ... | 2 | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... |
| Totals | 235 | 259 | 319 | 378 | 1,191 | 41 | 337 | 554 | 110 | 97 | 40 | 12 | 43 | 203 | 206 | 165 | 192 | 113 | 173 | 96 | 1,100 | 111 | 137 |
| Numbers and percentages of cases moved to hospitals. | 200 | 242 | 308 | 350 | 1,100 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 85.1% | 93.4% | 96.2% | 92.6% | 92.3% | |||||||||||||||||||
Note.—The following diseases are notifiable:—
Small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, erysipelas, scarlet fever, typhus fever, typhoid fevers, relapsing
fever, continued fever, puerperal fever, puerperal pyrexia, plague, cerebro spinal fever, acute polio
encephalitis and poliomyelitis, encephalitis lethargica, glanders, anthrax, hydrophobia, malaria,
dysentery, acute primary pneumonia, acute influenzal pneumonia, ophthalmia neonatorum
Tuberculosis, all forms (for which see special section of this report).