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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Shoreditch 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: TABLE SHOWING CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR, 1936.

TABLE SHOWING CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR, 1936.

NOTIFIABLE DISEASE.NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED.Cases removed to hospital.Per cent removed to hospital.Diagnosis revised subsequently.Deaths.
1st Quarter2nd Quarter3rd Quarter4th QuarterTotalAGES.WARDS.
Moorfields.Church.Hoxton.Wenlock.Whitmore.Kingsland.Haggerston.Acton.
Under 1 year.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65
Smallpox........................................................................
Scarlet fever446784922874941562211......195748335018214128298.331...
Diphtheria55564567223981109186...53843413323261422299.5475
Enteric fever (including paratyphoid)41......5...13...1.........1211.........5100.0......
Puerperal fever.........22.........11..................11......2100.0......
Puerperal pyrexia4510423.........518......215331441669.6......
Acute primary pneumonia128110313566524...75563...52167.6...93
Acute influenzal pneumonia422917...321452...8...32...22635.3
Erysipelas21913105331651416821102056432547.2...3
Cerebro-spinal fever2......1311...1..................11...1...266.6...1
Ophthalmia neonatorum33321111.....................22...241...327.3......
Acute poliomyelitis.....................................................................1
Dysentery37923516261522.........312872194792.2......
Encephalitis lethargica.....................................................................4
Malaria........................................................................
Cholera........................................................................
Relapsing fever........................................................................
Continued fever........................................................................
Plague........................................................................
Glanders........................................................................
Anthrax........................................................................
Hydrophobia........................................................................
Measles (under 5 years)156639311597586889...............342001291281561109612243945.0...39
Totals752553171205168112311012976162231462328237237268173176200107063.6...146
Tuberculosis (pulmonary)18263121961...524283264221414177126.........50
„ (other forms)366520127451...25123...43.........11
Numbers and percentages of cases moved to hospitals (excluding tuberculosis)320332155181988
42.55%60.04%90.64%88.30%58.77%

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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 meningitis, acute polioencephalitis 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), and measles (under 5 years).
* N.B.—-The figures for measles refer only to notifications received in respect of the first case under 5 years of age in each household.