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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 1915

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

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Table: TABLE III.—INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

TABLE III.—INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

Disease.1906.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.1913.1914.Mean annual number for 10 years ending 31st December. 1915.1915.
(a) Cases reported : Cholera (including suspected cases)395359219...5.72
Yellow Fever (ditto)2...2............4...0.8...
Plague (ditto)94146...9444.1...
Small-pox312716278133419923.147
Scarlet Fever82442316211110403029.518
Diphtheria771811111837161015.318
Enteric Fever81559036397061656762.864
Measles68518619231756164228111.2337
German Measles..................34...1.710
Erysipelas72755113335.59
Typhus Fever..................1......0.1...
Continued Fever111119101591328.87
Relapsing Fever.........1...............0.1...
Tuberculosis :—
Pulmonary..................71151127445.96
Other kinds...............7455.86
Other diseases (including Chicken-pox). Total35424157253842385041.648
336252308189144350343447575360.6662
(b) Treated in Port Sanitary Hospital: Cholera (including suspected cases)...1...12............0.4...
Yellow Fever (ditto).................................
Plague (ditto)13...12...1211.1...
Small-pox...8...4262924.310
Scarlet Fever284614...6...387.910
Diphtheria135143...712.83
Enteric Fever26274211172235293025.617
Measles314135272718913.133
Erysipelas1...11......1......0.51
Typhus Fever.................................
Continued Fever710610147916.05
Other diseases (including Chicken-pox). Total215151078714911.011
91758858375680916172.790