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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
Walthamstow 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Whole District. | Total Cases Notified in Each Locality. | Total Cases Removed to Hospital. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Ages. | At Ages-Years. | St. James Street. | High Street. | Hoe Street. | Wood Street. | Hale End. | Higham Hill. | ||||||||
| Under1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards. | |||||||||
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 257 | 1 | 61 | 176 | 10 | 8 | 1 | - | 86 | 40 | 42 | 16 | 24 | 49 | 228 |
| Erysipelas | 53 | 1 | - | 10 | 7 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 6 | 13 |
| Scarlet Fever | 185 | - | 51 | 110 | 20 | 4 | - | - | 26 | 45 | 41 | 21 | 15 | 37 | 144 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | 6 | - | - | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 3 |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis | 6 | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | 6 | |
| Polio-encephalitis | i | - | 1 ' | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 16 | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | - |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 202 | - | 5 | 15 | 56 | 82 | 40 | 4 | 40 | 36 | 35 | 24 | 18 | 49 | - |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 56 | 4 | 7 | 26 | 12 | 5 | 2 | - | 13 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | - |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 29 | - | - | 9 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 18 |
| Malaria (Imported) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery (Imported) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 170 | 4 | 21 | 22 | 27 | 37 | 41 | 18 | 47 | 28 | 24 | 20 | 22 | 29 | 48 |
| Trench Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 986 | 27 | 152 | 373 | 137 | 160 | 108 | 29 | 235 | 180 | 169 | 105 | 106 | 191 | 465 |