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 Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 21.
CASES OP INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED—1922.
Diseases. | Number of Cases Notified. Age Groups. | |||||||||||||
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All Ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 2 years. | 2 and under 3 years. | 3 and under 4 years. | 4 and under 5 years. | 5 and under 10 years. | 10 and under 15 years. | 15 and under 20 years. | 20 and under 35 years. | 35 and under 45 years. | 45 and under 65 years. | 65 and over. | ||
*Diphtheria | 437 | 2 | 17 | 32 | 21 | 21 | 145 | 90 | 33 | 58 | 8 | 10 | .. | |
Scarlet Fever | 511 | .. | 19 | 26 | 33 | 26 | 212 | 101 | 36 | 44 | 12 | 1 | 11 | |
Enteric Fever | 8 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | |
Puerperal Fever | 11 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 9 | 2 | .. | .. | |
Pneumonia | 345 | 38 | 30 | 26 | 13 | 18 | 24 | 11 | 15 | 41 | 41 | 58 | 30 | |
Erysipelas | 37 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 5 | 8 | 20 | 3 | |
Cerebro-spinal meningitis | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | . . | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Poliomyelitis | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Acute Polio-Encephalitis. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | . . | .. | .. | |
Encephalitis lethargica | 3 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | |
Malaria | 11 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 4 | 5 | 2 | .. | |
Continued fever | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | . . | .. | |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 26 | 26 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | |
Zymotic enteritis | 31 | 18 | 7 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 3 | .. | 1 | 1 | |
Tuberculosis Pulmonary | .. | .. | 5 | |||||||||||
2 | .. | .. | ||||||||||||
Total | 245 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 37 | 99 | 36 | 37 | 1 | |
Tuberculosis Non-pulmonary | 4 | 5 | .. | |||||||||||
.. | ||||||||||||||
Total | 60 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 4 | .. | |
†Measles (including German Measles) | 2698 | 59 | 124 | 159 | 163 | 340 | 1720 | 125 | 7 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | |
4430 | 150 | 201 | 248 | 240 | 408 | 2129 | 353 | 140 | 276 | 116 | 133 | 36 | ||
*Includes Membranous Croup. †Not Notifiable—Information obtained voluntarily. No cases of Smallpox, Typhus Fever, Relapsing Fever, Cholera, Plague, Dysentery, Trench Fever, Anthrax, Glanders, Hydrophobia, were notified during the year, |