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. 28.
Cases of Infectious Diseases Notified in the Borough and Parishes during the year 1924, shewing the Case Rate per 1,000 Population.
Diseases. | Borough. | Total Cases notified in each locality. | Case rates, per 1,000 Population. | |||||||
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Woolwich. | Plums te ad. | Eltham. | Borough. | Woolwich. | Plums tead. | Eltham. | ||||
West. | East. | West. | East. | |||||||
Diphtheria | 195 | 67 | 42 | 39 | 47 | 1.39 | 2.06 | 1.02 | 1.10 | 1.52 |
Scarlet Fever | 440 | 134 | 103 | 96 | 107 | 3.14 | 4.11 | 2.51 | 2.71 | 3.45 |
Enteric Fever | 11 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0.08 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 0.06 | 0.06 |
Puerperal Fever | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.09 |
Erysipelas | 45 | 7 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 0.32 | 0.21 | 0.37 | 0.37 | 0.32 |
Pneumonia | 354 | 136 | 76 | 82 | 60 | 2.53 | 4.17 | 1.85 | 2.31 | 1.94 |
Malaria | 3 | .. | 2 | .. | 1 | 0.02 | .. | 0.05 | .. | 0.03 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 27 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 0.19 | 0.31 | 0.17 | 0.11 | 0.19 |
Dysentery | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 0.01 | 0.03 | .. | .. | .. |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 17 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 0.12 | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.17 | 0.09 |
Cerebro spinal Meningitis | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | .. | 0.09 | 0.21 | 0.07 | 0.06 | .. |
Poliomyelitis | 5 | 2 | 1 | .. | 2 | 0.04 | 0.06 | 0.02 | .. | 0.06 |
Zymotic Enteritis | 13 | 9 | 2 | .. | 2 | 0.09 | 0.28 | 0.05 | .. | .. |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 273 | 84 | 85 | 63 | 41 | 1.95 | 2.58 | 2.07 | 1.78 | 1.32 |
Tuberculosis (Non-pulmonary) | 69 | 15 | 21 | 20 | 13 | 0.49. | 0.46 | 0.51 | 0.56 | 0.42 |
Measles (including German Measles) | 2679 | 809 | 760 | 676 | 425 | 19.14 | 24.83 | 18.76 | 19.07 | 13.73 |
4151 | 1290 | 1135 | 1004 | 722 | 29.65 | 39.59 | 27.68 | 28.36 | 23.33 |