Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 36.
Notification of Infectious Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis), 1938.
Diseases. | Number of Cases Notified. | ||||||||||||
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All Ages. | Age Groups. | ||||||||||||
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 | 264 | 10 | 9 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 118 | 31 | 9 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Scarlet Fever | 507 | 1 | 13 | 18 | 34 | 36 | 173 | 72 | 99 | 51 | 5 | 5 | — |
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid Fever) | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
Puerperal Fever | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | — |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 30 | 6 | - | — |
Erysipelas | 94 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 10 | 43 | 10 |
Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Pneumonia | 207 | 19 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 17 | 8 | 12 | 22 | 21 | 44 | 25 |
Malaria | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 32 | 32 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Dysentery | 50 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 9 | 1 |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 6 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
Poliomyelitis | 5 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
Polio-encephalitis | — | — | — | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Zymotic Enteritis | 61 | 40 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
*Measles | 2,560 | 65 | 155 | 188 | 378 | 418 | 1,289 | 51 | 9 | 6 | 1 | — | — |
*Whooping Cough | 45 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 21 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — |
3,886 | 177 | 201 | 246 | 451 | 493 | 1,637 | 172 | 141 | 173 | 55 | 103 | 37 |
*Includes all known cases, whether notified or not.