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. 43.
Cases of Infectious Diseases Notified in the Borough and Parishes during the year 1926, shewing the Case Rate per 1,000 Population.
Diseases. | Borough. | Total Cases notified in each locality. | Case rates, per 1,000 Population. | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Woolwich. | Plumstead. | Eltham. | Borough. | Woolwich. | Plumstead. | Eltham. | ||||
West. | East. | West. | East. | |||||||
Diphtheria | 393 | 166 | 86 | 82 | 59 | 2.77 | 5.14 | 2.12 | 2.30 | 1.77 |
Scarlet Fever | 411 | 91 | 97 | 137 | 86 | 2.90 | 2.82 | 2.39 | 3.84 | 2.58 |
Enteric Fever | 8 | .. | .. | 6 | 2 | 0.06 | .. | .. | 0.17 | 0.06 |
Puerperal Fever | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.02 | 0.03 | .. |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 7 | 5 | .. | 1 | 1 | 0.05 | 0.15 | .. | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Erysipelas | 46 | 11 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 0.32 | 0.34 | 0.25 | 0.45 | 0.27 |
Continued Fever | 1 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 0.01 | .. | .. | .. | .03 |
Pneumonia | 292 | 109 | 52 | 68 | 63 | 2.06 | 3.38 | 1.28 | 1.91 | 1.89 |
Malaria | 5 | 4 | 1 | .. | .. | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.02 | .. | .. |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 18 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0.13 | 0.37 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0. 06 |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 7 | 3 | .. | 2 | 2 | 0.05 | 0.09 | .. | 0.06 | 0.06 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 9 | 7 | .. | 1 | 1 | 0.06 | 0.22 | .. | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Poliomyelitis | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | .. | 0.04 | 0.09 | 0.02 | 0.03 | .. |
Zymotic Enteritis | 23 | 9 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 0.16 | 0.28 | 0.02 | 0.28 | 0.09 |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 287 | 99 | 77 | 61 | 50 | 2.02 | 3.07 | l8.9 | 1.71 | 1.50 |
Tuberculosis (Non-pulmonary) | 2 | 21 | 16 | 14 | 11 | 0.44 | 0.65 | 0.39 | 0.39 | 0.33 |
Measles (including German Measles) | 1246 | 344 | 461 | 226 | 215 | 8.71 | 10.66 | 11.36 | 6.33 | 6.45 |
2824 | 886 | 805 | 628 | 505 | 19.90 | 27.45 | 19.83 | 17.60 | 15.14 |