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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
Woolwich 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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The following table No. 28 shows the number of deaths and
the death-rates from various infectious diseases each year
since 1917.
TABLE No. 28.
| Year | Small-pox. | Diphtheria. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Measles. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Rate. | Deaths. | Rate. | Deaths. | Rate. | Deaths. | Rate. | Deaths. | Rate. | Deaths. | Rate. | |
| 1917 | .. | .. | 17 | 0.12 | 1 | 0.01 | 4 | 0.03 | 7 | 0.05 | 30 | 0.21 |
| 1918 | .. | 25 | 0.17 | 4 | 0.03 | 2 | 0.01 | 9 | 0.06 | 21 | 0.14 | |
| 1919 | 2 | 0.01 | 28 | 0.21 | 3 | 0.02 | 5 | 0.04 | 5 | 0.04 | 7 | 0.05 |
| 1920 | .. | .. | 25 | 0.18 | 4 | 0.03 | 2 | 0.01 | 5 | 0.04 | 21 | 0.14 |
| 1921 | .. | .. | 40 | 0.29 | 10 | 0.07 | 1 | 0.01 | 5 | 0.04 | 4 | 0.03 |
TABLE No. 28—
| Year. | Erysipelas | Diarrhoea and Enteritis. | Pneumonia | Cerebrospinal Fever and Post-basic Meningitis. | Encephalitis Lethargica. | Whooping Cough. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths. | Rate. | Deaths. | Rate. | Deaths. | Rate. | Deaths. | Rate. | Deaths. | Rate. | Deaths. | Rate. | |
| 1917 | 4 | 0.03 | 43 | 0.29 | 142 | 0.98 | 6 | 0.04 | .. | .. | 10 | 0.07 |
| 1918 | 1 | 0.01 | 40 | 0.27 | 208 | 1.42 | 7 | 005 | .. | .. | 29 | 0.20 |
| 1919 | 2 | 0.01 | 32 | 0.24 | 125 | 0.92 | 2 | 001 | 3 | 0.02 | 11 | 0.08 |
| 1920 | 1 | 0.01 | 27 | 0.19 | 97 | 0.68 | 7 | 005 | .. | .. | 14 | 0.10 |
| 1921 | 2 | 0.01 | 72 | 0.53 | 98 | 0.72 | 1 | 001 | 4 | 0.03 | 16 | 0.12 |