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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 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 37.
Ward Incidence of Infectious Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis), 1934.
| Diseases. | Borough. | Dockyard. | St. Mary's. | River. | St. George's. | Burrage. | Herbert. | Glyndon. | St. Margaret's. | Central. | St. Nicholas. | Abbey Wood. | Well Hall. | Avery Hill. | Sherard. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | 416 | 21 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 22 | 26 | 18 | 32 | 17 | 25 | 24 | 169 |
| Scarlet Fever | 989 | 36 | 41 | 51 | 62 | 43 | 26 | 58 | 69 | 38 | 97 | 70 | 56 | 50 | 292 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid Fever) | 8 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 30 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 119 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 7 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 19 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 280 | 16 | 16 | 33 | 12 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 49 | 23 | 21 | 38 | |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | — | — |
| Polio-encephalitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | — |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | 1 |
| 1 | |||||||||||||||
| 4,257 | 198 | 234 | 402 | 321 | 186 | 208 | 227 | 320 | 196 | 406 | 284 | 181 | 256 | 838 | |
| * Not notifiable. | |||||||||||||||