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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 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 40.
Cases of Infectious Diseases Notified 1933 (excluding Tuberculosis).
| Diseases. | Number of Cases Notified. Age Groups. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages. | Under 1 year. | 1 and under 2 years. | 2 and under 3 years. | 3 and under 4 years. | 4 and under 5 years. | 5 and under 10 years. | 10 and under 15 years. | 15 and under 20 years. | 20 and under 35 years. | 35 and under 45 years. | 45 and under 65 years. | 65 and over. | |
| Diphtheria | 370 | 4 | 7 | 16 | 33 | 23 | 150 | 70 | 19 | 33 | 7 | 7 | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1,004 | 3 | 18 | 40 | 60 | 77 | 409 | 257 | 56 | 59 | 20 | 5 | — |
| Enteric Fever (including Para-typhoid Fever) | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | — | 1 | — |
| Puerperal Fever | 4 | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 36 | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 28 | 7 | — | — |
| Erysipelas | 67 | 2 | - | 1 | — | — | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 25 | 4 |
| Smallpox | 2 | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — |
| Pneumonia | 249 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 37 | 8 | 19 | 30 | 31 | 47 | 33 |
| Malaria | 2 | — | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| OphthalmiaNeonatorum | 9 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Menin gitis | 9 | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis. | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 5 | 3 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| * Measles (including German Measles) | 354 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 14 | 215 | 38 | 45 | 19 | 1 | — | — |
| 2,118 | 43 | 40 | 69 | 106 | 124 | 816 | 380 | 145 | 192 | 79 | 86 | 38 | |
* Not notifiable.