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. 37. Notification of Infectious Disease, 1933.
Diseases | Total Cases Notified. | Admissions to Hospital. | Total Deaths. |
---|---|---|---|
Diphtheria | 370 | 368 | 15 |
Scarlet Fever | 1,004 | 952 | — |
Enteric Fever (including Para-Typhoid Fever) | 5 | 5 | — |
Puerperal Fever | 4 | 3 | 2 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 36 | 35 | — |
Erysipelas | 67 | 29 | 6 |
Smallpox | 2 | 2 | — |
Pneumonia | 249 | 138 | 86 |
Malaria | 2 | 2 | — |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | 4 | — |
Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | 3 |
Dysentery | — | — | — |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 9 | 9 | 5 |
Poliomyelitis | 2 | 2 | — |
Zymotic Enteritis | 5 | 1 | — |
* Measles (including German Measles) | 354 | 5 | 1 |
2,118 | 1,555 | 118 |
* Not notifiable.