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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No. 38.
Deaths from Infectious Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis), 1938.
| Diseases. | Number of Deaths. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages. | Age Groups. | |||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1- | 2- | 5- | 15- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | ||
| Diphtheria | 8 | - | 1 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 4 | — | — | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever (including Para-typhoid Fever) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Pneumonia | 96 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 17 | 12 | 15 |
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 3 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 3 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Polio-encephalitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 26 | 18 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 4 |
| Measles | 4 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Whooping Cough. | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 149 | 39 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 11 | 18 | 14 | 19 | |