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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
East Ham 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 15.
Prevalence of and Control over Infectious Disease.— Notified Cases for the 52 Weeks ending 28th December, 1935.
| Disease. | Cases notified in whole district. | Ward distribution of Cases. | No. of Cases removed to hospital. | Total deaths in Borough. | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages—years | Manor Park. | Little Ilford. | Wood-grange. | Plashet. | Kensington. | Castle. | Central. | Wall End. | Great-field. | South. | ||||||||||||
| At all ages | Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and up. | |||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 411 | 3 | 108 | 170 | 56 | 28 | 38 | 5 | 3 | - | 34 | 41 | 35 | 37 | 30 | 35 | 51 | 37 | 46 | 65 | 344 | *1 |
| Diphtheria | 254 | 3 | 64 | 107 | 48 | 13 | 15 | 2 | 2 | - | 28 | 35 | 9 | 33 | 26 | 22 | 21 | 27 | 16 | 37 | 250 | 16 |
| Erysipelas | 55 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 22 | 2 |
| Puerperal Fever | 12 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 6 | - |
| Pneumonia | 88 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 21 | 6 | 5 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 39 | 91 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Meningococcal Meningitis | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 |
| Enteric Fever | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 |
| Acute Polio Myelitis | 13 | - | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 13 | 3 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 |
* Inward transferable death.