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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Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1917.
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. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | Limehouse. | St. George's. | Mile End. | White-chapel. | |||
| Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 630 | 42 | 279 | 259 | 37 | 12 | 1 | .. | 120 | 103 | 241 | 166 | 629 |
| Erysipelas | 193 | 12 | 22 | 26 | 11 | 45 | 58 | .. | 41 | 30 | 65 | 57 | 32 |
| Scarlet Fever | 356 | 7 | 133 | 202 | 11 | 3 | .. | .. | 54 | 54 | 152 | 96 | 354 |
| Typhus Fever | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 |
| Enteric Fever | 38 | .. | 4 | 17 | 2 | 13 | 2 | .. | 11 | 5 | 18 | 4 | 35 |
| Relapsing Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Continued Fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Puerperal Fever | 16 | .. | .. | 1 | 4 | 11 | .. | .. | 5 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 15 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 14 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | |
| Poliomyelitis | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 31 | 31 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 11 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 2 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 1069 | 3 | 14 | 126 | 242 | 514 | 152 | 18 | 199 | 206 | 406 | 258 | 376 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 235 | 7 | 51 | 128 | 31 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 67 | 56 | 73 | 39 | 63 |
| M easles and German Measles | 3403 | 188 | 1937 | 1208 | 54 | 14 | 2 | .. | 593 | 575 | 1228 | 1007 | 97 |
| Anthrax | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 |
| Totals | 5991 | 294 | 2445 | 1972 | 394 | 627 | 221 | 38 | 1109 | 1039 | 2210 | 1633 | 1622 |