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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 1917

[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.1908.1909.1910.1911.1912.1913.1914.1915.1916.Mean annual nurn ber fo 10 years end ing 31st December. 1917.1917.
(a) Cases reported :
Cholera (including suspected cases)5359219...255.22
Yellow Fever (ditto)2............4.........0.6...
Plague (ditto)146...9444...5.018
Small-pox162781334199471519.02
Scarlet Fever2316211110403018517.4...
Diphtheria1811111837161018715.59
Enteric Fever90363970616567646159.643
Measles8619231756164228337836199.7168
German Measles............34...1085.833
Erysipelas75511333914.7...
Typhus Fever............1............0.21
Continued Fever1910159132757.32
Relapsing Fever...1..................0.1• ••
Tuberculosis:—
Pulmonary............71151127965354.345
Miners' Phthisis......................... . ....23
Other kinds...............7456198.03
Other diseases (including Chicken- pox).41572538423850484454.9166
Total3081891443503434475756621,059457.3515
(b) Treated in Port Sanitary Hospital :
Cholera (including suspected cases)...12..................0.3...
Yellow Fever (ditto).................................
Plague (ditto)...12...121......1.69
Small-pox...4262921023.7...
Scarlet Fever614...6...381024.9...
Diphtheria5143...71312.61
Enteric Fever42111722352930173425.215
Measles135272718933412.13
Erysipelas11......1......1...0.51
Typhus Fever.................................
Continued Fever61014791545.58
Other diseases (including Chicken-151078714911611.124
Total88583756809161905367.561