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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 41.
Cases of Infectious Diseases Notified 1936 (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 | 176 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 17 | 18 | 57 | 26 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 6 | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 609 | 5 | 24 | 38 | 43 | 67 | 242 | 84 | 34 | 53 | 15 | 4 | — |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 | 1 | — | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 23 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 17 | 4 | — | — |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid Fever) | 12 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | — | 2 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 68 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 14 | 9 | 27 | 15 |
| Malaria | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
| Dysentery | 4 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 15 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | — | 1 | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 26 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 63 | 32 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | — |
| Pneumonia | 249 | 29 | 30 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 24 | 8 | 8 | 21 | 24 | 51 | 23 |
| Polio- encephalitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | — | ||||||||||||
| * Not notifiable. | 3,314 | 162 | 258 | 228 | 333 | 451 | 1,248 | 161 | 121 | 154 | 65 | 94 | 39 |