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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 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 54.
Cases of Infectious Diseases in the Borough and Parishes during the year 1930, shewing the Case Rates per 1,000 population.
| Diseases. | Total Cases Notified in each locality. | Case Rates per 1,000 Population. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borough. | Woolwich. | Plumstead. | Eltham. | Borough. | Woolwich. | Plumstead. | Eltham. | |||
| West. | East. | West. | East. | |||||||
| Diphtheria | 497 | 158 | 122 | 91 | 126 | 3.51 | 5.37 | 3.20 | 2.66 | 3.16 |
| Scarlet Fever | 627 | 178 | 189 | 96 | 164 | 4.43 | 6.05 | 4.96 | 2.81 | 4.12 |
| Enteric Fever | 8 | .. | 5 | .. | 3 | 0.06 | .. | 0.13 | .. | 0.08 |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 31 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 0.22 | 0.37 | 0.10 | 0.15 | 0.28 |
| Erysipelas | 77 | 21 | 29 | 14 | 13 | 0.54 | 0.71 | 0.76 | 0.41 | 0.33 |
| Smallpox | 10 | .. | 9 | 1 | .. | 0.07 | .. | 0.24 | 0.03 | .. |
| Pneumonia | 283 | 84 | 63 | 77 | 59 | 2.00 | 2.85 | 1.65 | 2.25 | 1.48 |
| Malaria | 2 | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | 0.01 | 0.03 | .. | 0.03 | .. |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | .. | 0.06 | 014 | 0.05 | 0.06 | .. |
| Dysentery | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 0.01 | .. | 0.03 | .. | .. |
| Cerebrospinal Meningitis | 2 | 1 | 1 | .. | .. | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.03 | .. | .. |
| Poliomyelitis | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | 1 | 0.01 | .. | .. | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 22 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 0.16 | 0.07 | 0.05 | 0.41 | 0.10 |
| Chicken Pox | 597 | 159 | 126 | 167 | 145 | 4.22 | 5.40 | 3.31 | 4.88 | 3.64 |
| 2702 | 926 | 554 | 342 | 880 | 19.08 | 31.45 | 14.54 | 10.00 | 22.09 | |
| 4874 | 1546 | 1109 | 812 | 1407 | 34.42 | 52.51 | 29.10 | 23.74 | 35.31 | |