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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Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases notified. | Total Cases notified in* each Locality. | Total cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | ||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 0 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | Limehouse. | St. George's. | Mile End. | Whitechapel. | |||
| Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | .. | ||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | |||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever ,, | .. | ||||||||||||
| Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | ||||||
| Enteric Fever .. .. .. | .. | .. | |||||||||||
| Relapsing Fever .. .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
| Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
| Puerperal Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||||
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||||
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | a a | |||||||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | |||||||||||||
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | |||||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||||
| Anthrax | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |||||
| Totals | |||||||||||||
119 (2)