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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 18. Prevalence of and Control over Infectious Disease.—Notified Cases for the 53 Weeks ending 2nd January,, 1937.
| 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 | 359 | 3 | 83 | 150 | 50 | 34 | 29 | 8 | 2 | - | 32 | 59 | 23 | 33 | 38 | 21 | 21 | 45 | 31 | 56 | 323 | - |
| Diphtheria | 134 | 1 | 37 | 55 | 20 | 10 | 10 | 1 | - | - | 18 | 15 | 6 | 31 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 6 | 20 | 134 | 5 |
| Erysipelas | 59 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 30 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 4 |
| Puerperal Fever | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 5 | - |
| Pneumonia | 101 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 27 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 17 | 60 | 92 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | - |
| Enteric Fever | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Acute Polio Myelitis | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 |