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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 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1926.Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1926.

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.Lime-house2 St. George's3 Mile End4 White-chapel
Under 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4345 to 6565 and upwards
Small-pox.......................................
Cholera.......................................
Plague.......................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)6542029020842313...114143231166649
Erysipelas13341020133042142020534070
Scarlet Fever887935447139131179202335171879
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever34...39418......2620634
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever16.........412......525415
Puerperal Pyrexia5.........131...1...315
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis -5211...1......12...25
Polio-Myelitis1......1...............1......1
Polio-Encephalitis.......................................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2222..................64758
Pulmonary Tuberculosis4321122683180116147376154129285
Other forms of Tuberculosis99315501411511317452471
Encephalitis Lethargica16...22552...274814
Totals230461687848205304170294164808575512036