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Stepney 1916

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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TABLE II.— Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1916.

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Notifiable Disease.At all Ages.Number of Cases notified.Total Cases notified in each Locality.Total cases removed to Hospital.
At Ages—Years.1.2.3.4.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65 and upwards.Lime-house.St. George'sMile End.White -chapel.
Small-pox..........................
Cholera..........................
Plague..........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)8502534040941323..164127285274844
Erysipelas244152036256163245932866736
Scarlet Fever6611020634391101..118135232176658
Typhus Fever..........................
Enteric Fever32....126104..84101024
Relapsing Fever..........................
Continued Fever1..........1......1....
Puerperal Fever10......19....51319
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis32131333......6916129
Poliomyelitis12291........435..8
Ophthalmia Neonatorum4242............233115..
Pulmonary Tuberculosis96122318415539917523213148379221419
Other forms of Tuberculosis26075214922246..6457974283
M uasles and German Measles2255202146355127111..52458884929450
Totals5360318212616883715562544711881107197410912160