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Stepney 1917

[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)6304227925937121..120103241166629
Erysipelas193122226114558..4130655732
Scarlet Fever3567133202113....545415296354
Typhus Fever1..........1....1....1
Enteric Fever38..4172132..11518435
Relapsing Fever..........................
Continued Fever..........................
Puerperal Fever16....1411....518215
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis1434322....634113
Poliomyelitis4112........2..114
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3131............1151322
Pulmonary Tuberculosis106931412624251415218199206406258376
Other forms of Tuberculosis2357511283113416756733963
M easles and German Measles34031881937120854142..5935751228100797
Anthrax1..........1......1..1
Totals5991294244519723946272213811091039221016331622