Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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TABLE II.—Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1911.
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
Notifiable Disease. | At all Ages. | Cases notified in Whole District. | Total Cases notified in Locality. | each | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each locality. | |||||||||||||
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At Ages—Years. | 1- | 2. | 3. | 4. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||
U nder 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | Lime-house. | St. George's. | Mile End. | White -chapel. | Lime-house. | St. George's. | Mile End. | White-chapel. | ||||
Small-pox | 39 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 2 | .. | .. | 37 | 2 | .. | .. | 37 | 2 | 39 | |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Diphtheria (including Membranous croup) | 472 | 29 | 264 | 129 | 29 | 17 | 4 | .. | 105 | 102 | 159 | 106 | 99 | 97 | 148 | 101 | 445 | |
Erysipelas | 474 | 17 | 31 | 45 | 63 | 158 | 131 | 29 | 89 | 79 | 155 | 151 | 8 | 11 | 22 | 40 | 81 | |
Scarlet fever | 423 | 11 | 173 | 216 | 15 | 8 | .. | .. | 96 | 52 | 188 | 87 | 90 | 51 | 182 | 82 | 405 | |
Typhus fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Enteric fever | 79 | .. | 2 | 27 | 14 | 28 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 16 | 35 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 34 | 17 | 76 | |
Relapsing fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Continued fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Puerperal fever | 29 | .. | .. | .. | 7 | 22 | .. | .. | 3 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 20 | |
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Cerebro-spinal fever | 7 | 3 | 4 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 3 | 1 | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 | |
Phthisis. | Regulations— Under Tuberculosis, 1908 | 440 | 1 | 6 | 25 | 36 | 220 | 125 | 27 | 77 | 79 | 171 | 113 | 69 | 64 | 147 | 102 | 382 |
1911 | 830 | .. | 6 | 57 | 183 | 453 | 127 | 4 | 148 | 160 | 306 | 216 | 15 | 19 | 30 | 18 | 82 | |
Voluntary | 80 | .. | 1 | 71 | 4 | 3 | 1 | «• | 14 | 11 | 32 | 23 | .. | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 16 | 16 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 2 | 5 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Polio-Myelitis | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 3 | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | |
Anthrax | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Chicken Pox | 219 | 30 | 103 | 84 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 36 | 33 | 94 | 56 | .. | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | |
Measles | 1819 | 207 | 1285 | 312 | 11 | 4 | .. | .. | 292 | 442 | 523 | 562 | 30 | 58 | 32 | 53 | 173 | |
Totals | 4932 | 318 | 1882 | 972 | 374 | 921 | 402 | 63 | 880 | 982 | 1727 | 1343 | 326 | 321 | 652 | 424 | 1723 |