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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 20. Prevalence of and Control over Infectious Disease.—Notified Cases for the 52 Weeks ending 31st December, 1938.
| 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 | 287 | 2 | 78 | 135 | 138 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | - | 31 | 24 | 29 | 20 | 15 | 31 | 16 | 38 | 29 | 54 | 253 | - |
| Diphtheria | 141 | 2 | 36 | 66 | 19 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 1 | - | 20 | 15 | 15 | 19 | 2 | 23 | 10 | 6 | 13 | 18 | 140 | 10 |
| Erysipelas | 71 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 5 | 7 | 19 | 27 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 22 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 18 | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | 4 | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | 3 | 3 | - | 2 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 85 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 1 9 | 5 | 15 | 12 | 19 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 19 | 55 | 80 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | - |
| Enteric Fever | 15 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 8 | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 15 | 1 |
| Meningococcal Meningitis | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Dysentery | 18 | - | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |