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Shoreditch 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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TABLE SHOWING CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE CALENDAR YEAR, 1934.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASE.NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED.Cases removed to Hospital.Diagnosis revised subsequently.Deaths.
1st Quarter2nd Quarter3rd Quarter4th QuarterTotalAGES.WARDS.
IIIIIIIVVVIVIIVIII
Under 1 year.1 to 5.5 to 1515 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65Moorfielda.Church.Hoxton.Wenlock.Whitmore.Kingsland.Haggerton.Acton
Smallpox...2......2......2........................2.........2......
Enteric fever.....................................................................
Scarlet fever100102961114091148223289......1954665378344758394452
Diphtheria749481113362913117722212...19596354593038403617413
Acute primary pneumonia26841957...10810169...21171310554431
Acute influenzal pneumonia3.........3...111............1............112...121
Erysipelas1616151259...59515151011011101055741...4
Puerperal fever2...226.........24.........12...11...14......
Puerperal pyrexia477523.........815.........731433221......
Cerebro-spinal fever1...11311..................111............3...2
Ophthalmia neonatorum66241818..................422342...12......
Acute anterior poliomyelitis......213...21...............21...............3......
Dysentery5.........532..................11111......51...
Encephalitis Lethargica.....................................................................
Malaria.....................................................................
Cholera.....................................................................
Typhus & typhoid fevers.....................................................................
Relapsing fever.....................................................................
Continued fever.....................................................................
Plague.....................................................................
Glanders.....................................................................
Anthrax.....................................................................
Hydrophobia.....................................................................
Totals23723521026895032300422768026144115115713516883101114891120142
Tuberculosis (pulmonary)33473319132313424132172616272011718......84
,, (other forms)695626241073.........8437211......10
Numbers and percentages of cases moved to hospitals (excluding tuberculosis)217 91.6%219 97.0%205 97.6%250 93.3%891 93.8%