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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 1918
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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TABLE III.
Return of the Number of Cases of Infectious Disease Notified to the Local
Government Board during the Year 1918, and of Deaths from the Diseases Notified.
This Table includes all cases actually introduced or occurring within the Port, but does not include cases 'reported as having occurred on vessels during the voyage, but which had either recovered or been removed from the vessel before arrival at Gravesend.
| Notified. | Deaths. | |
|---|---|---|
| Plague (including Suspected)- | 12 | 1 |
| Small-pox | 1 | ... |
| Scarlet Fever | 8 | ... |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 20 | ... |
| Enteric (Typhoid) Fever | 1.5 | ... |
| Puerperal'Fever | ... | ... |
| Typhus Fever | ... | ... |
| Cholera | ... | ... |
| Relapsing Fever | ... | ... |
| Continued Fever | 2 | ... |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | ... | ... |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | ... | ... |
| Erysipelas | ... | ... |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | ... | .... |
| Tuberculosis : Pulmonary | 31 | ... |
| Other kinds | 18 | ... |
| Chicken-pox | 15 | ... |
| Whooping Cough | ... | ... |
| Measles | 126 | ... |
| German Measles | 3 | ... |
| Other Diseases | 154 | 3 |
| 405 | 5 |
NUMBER OF NOTIFICATIONS (SUBVEILLANCE) DURING 1918.
| Plague :—Passengers | 230 |
| Crew | 35 |
| Stevedores, &c. | 310 |
| Total 575 | |
| Number of Notifications received from Practitioners | 41 |