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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. 42.
Deaths from Infectious Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis), 1937.
| Diseases. | Number of Deaths. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages. | Age Groups. | |||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1- | 2- | 5- | 15- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | ||
| Diphtheria | 10 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Enteric Fever (including Para-typhoid Fever) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Puerperal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | |
| Erysipelas | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | |||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 105 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 19 | 24 | - |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Polio-encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 16 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| * Not notifiable | 143 | 26 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 22 | 28 | 23 |