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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 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 58.
Cases of Infectious Diseases Notified, 1935 (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 | 313 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 25 | 34 | 140 | 38 | 20 | 20 | 4 | 5 | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 634 | 1 | 13 | 25 | 44 | 65 | 279 | 120 | 27 | 44 | 7 | 8 | 1 |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid Fever) | 9 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | — |
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | — | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 36 | 4 | — | — |
| Erysipelas | 78 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — | 4 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 36 | 17 |
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pneumonia | 255 | 23 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 34 | 25 | 60 | 22 |
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 17 | 17 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis | 2 | — | — | 1 | — | — | —_ | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Polio-encephalitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 5 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| * Not notifiable. | 2,019 | 67 | 84 | 92 | 126 | 195 | 822 | 226 | 62 | 144 | 51 | 110 | 40 |