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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 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 40.
Notifications of Infectious Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis), 1937.
| 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 | 297 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 25 | 24 | 113 | 43 | 16 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 428 | 2 | 11 | 28 | 32 | 32 | 188 | 65 | 29 | 26 | 12 | 3 | — |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid Fever) | 17 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 10 | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | 8 | 2 | — | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 27 | — | - | — | — | — | - | — | 2 | 22 | 3 | — | - |
| Erysipelas | 73 | 2 | - | 1 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 33 | 14 |
| Smallpox | — | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pneumonia | 272 | 14 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 22 | 7 | 14 | 40 | 40 | 69 | 39 |
| Malaria | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 33 | 33 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 81 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 22 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 10 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | — |
| Poliomyelitis | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| Polio-encephalitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 65 | 33 | 11 | 5 | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | — |
| — | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| * Not notifiable. | 1,394 | 102 | 44 | 66 | 74 | 75 | 376 | 134 | 86 | 170 | 87 | 125 | 55 |