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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 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 52.
Cases of Infectious Diseases in the Borough and Parishes during the year 1929, shewing the Case Rates 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 | 496 | 164 | 145 | 71 | 116 | 3.50 | 5.57 | 3.80 | 2.08 | 2.91 |
| Scarlet Fever | 567 | 127 | 172 | 114 | 154 | 4.00 | 4.31 | 4.51 | 3.33 | 3.87 |
| Enteric Fever | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.05 |
| Puerperal Fever | 15 | 4 | .. | 1 | 10 | 0.11 | 0.14 | .. | 0.03 | 0.25 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 38 | 14 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 0.27 | 0.48 | 0.13 | 0.26 | 0.25 |
| Erysipelas | 80 | 15 | 17 | 22 | 26 | 0.56 | 0.51 | 0.45 | 0.64 | 0.65 |
| Smallpox | 5 | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0.04 | .. | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.05 |
| Pneumonia | 383 | 128 | 74 | 97 | 84 | 2.70 | 4.35 | 1.94 | 2.84 | 2.11 |
| Malaria | 5 | 5 | .. | .. | .. | 0.04 | 017 | .. | .. | .. |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 17 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0.12 | 0.27 | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.10 |
| Anthrax | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 0.01 | .. | .. | 0.03 | .. |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 4 | .. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.07 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 0.03 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 9 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.09 | 0.08 |
| Poliomyelitis | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 8 | 3 | .. | 4 | 1 | 0.06 | 0.10 | .. | 0.12 | 0.03 |
| 151 | 43 | 54 | 20 | 34 | 1.07 | 1.46 | 1.42 | 0.58 | 0.85 | |
| 1790 | 517 | 476 | 349 | 448 | 12.64 | 17.56 | 12.49 | 10.20 | 11.24 | |