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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

City of London 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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Table: TABLE IV. INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

TABLE IV. INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

Disease.1900.1901.1902.1903.1904.Mean Annual number for the 5 years.1905.
(a) Cases reported :
Cholera (including suspected cases)1...20946.86
Yellow Fever (ditto)..................1
Plague (ditto)61910669.49
Small-pox151393131129.024
Scarlet Fever142713111115.226
Diphtheria2028267316.88
Enteric Fever1267866885081.665
Measles678336143847.636
Erysipelas252412.89
Typhus Fever.........1...0.2...
Continued Fever25213126.811
Other diseases (includingChicken-pox)1291491712.216
Total265267282175153228.4211

Table: (b) Treated in Port Sanitary Hospital:

(b) Treated in Port Sanitary Hospital:

Cholera (including suspected cases).....................
Yellow Fever (ditto)..................
Plague (ditto)3134345.43
Small-pox972911512.24
Scarlet Fever252574.23
Diphtheria1524...2.42
Enteric Fever553727553341.423
Measles4511787.013
Erysipelas...111...0.62
Typhus Fever.....................
Continued Fever25413127.29
Other diseases (includingChicken-pox)818445.01
Total8479881037385.460