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 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's | Mile End. | White -chapel. | |||
| Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 850 | 25 | 340 | 409 | 41 | 32 | 3 | .. | 164 | 127 | 285 | 274 | 844 |
| Erysipelas | 244 | 15 | 20 | 36 | 25 | 61 | 63 | 24 | 59 | 32 | 86 | 67 | 36 |
| Scarlet Fever | 661 | 10 | 206 | 343 | 91 | 10 | 1 | .. | 118 | 135 | 232 | 176 | 658 |
| Typhus Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Enteric Fever | 32 | .. | .. | 12 | 6 | 10 | 4 | .. | 8 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 24 |
| Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Continued Fever | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
| Puerperal Fever | 10 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 9 | .. | .. | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 32 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 3 | .. | .. | .. | 6 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 29 |
| Poliomyelitis | 12 | 2 | 9 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 3 | 5 | .. | 8 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 42 | 42 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 23 | 3 | 11 | 5 | .. |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 961 | 2 | 23 | 184 | 155 | 399 | 175 | 23 | 213 | 148 | 379 | 221 | 419 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 260 | 7 | 52 | 149 | 22 | 24 | 6 | .. | 64 | 57 | 97 | 42 | 83 |
| M uasles and German Measles | 2255 | 202 | 1463 | 551 | 27 | 11 | 1 | .. | 524 | 588 | 849 | 294 | 50 |
| Totals | 5360 | 318 | 2126 | 1688 | 371 | 556 | 254 | 47 | 1188 | 1107 | 1974 | 1091 | 2160 |