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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 1916

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

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Table: TABLE II.— INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

TABLE II.— INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

Disease.1907.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.1913.1914.1915.Mean annual number for 10 years ending 31st December. 1916.1916.
(a) Cases reported : Cholera (including suspected cases)95359219...25.95
Yellow Fever (ditto)...2............4......0.6...
Plague (ditto)4146...944...3.2
Smallpox271627813341994721.515
Scarlet Fever44231621111040301821.85
Diphtheria7181111183716101815.37
Enteric Fever55903639706165676460.861
Measles518619231756164228337188.0836
German Measles...............34...102.58
Erysipelas27551133394.91
Typhus Fever...............1.........0.1...
Continued Fever11191015913279.05
Relapsing Fever......1..................0.1...
Tuberculosis :— Pulmonary...............711511279649.853
Other kinds..................74567.719
Other diseases (including Chicken-pox). Total42415725384238504842.544
252308189144350343447575662433.71059
(b) Treated in Port Sanitary Hospital : Cholera (including suspected cases)1...12...............0.4...
Yellow Fever (ditto).................................
Plague (ditto)3...12...121...1.0...
Small-pox8...426292104.52
Scarlet Fever4614...6...38105.32
Diphtheria35143...7132.81
Enteric Fever27421117223529301726.434
Measles1413527271893313.24
Erysipelas...11......1......10.4•••
Typhus Fever.................................
Continued Fever106101479155.74
Other diseases (including Chicken-pox). Total51510787149119.26
75885837568091619068.953