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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Stepney 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1925.Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1925.

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Notifiable Disease.Number of Cases notified.Total Cases notified in each Locality.Total cases removed to Hospital
At all AgesAt Ages—Years.1 Lime-house2 St, George's3 Mile End4 White-chapel
Under 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and upwards
Small-pox.......................................
Cholera.......................................
Plague.......................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)5681523023757254...128117207116564
Erysipelas13311312163445122320563439
Scarlet Fever55562442603510......108109182156545
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever24...36555...1910424
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever15.........4101...354315
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis11..........................11
Polio-Myelitis1...1..................1......1
Polio-Encephalitis.......................................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3434..................6614812
Pulmonary Tuberculosis50510401281851251710096179130349
Other forms of Tuberculosis100325431213312218392164
Encephalitis I.ethargica20...12755...427711
Totals195660527600264287188303953836984801625