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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
Stepney 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Limehouse]
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TABLE III.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1900.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in whole District. | Total cases notified in each Locality. | Number of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At ages—Years. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 1. | 2. | 3. | ||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||
| Small Pox | |||||||||||||
| Cholera | |||||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 169 | 4 | 84 | 68 | 9 | 4 | 87 | 43 | 39 | 68 | 30 | 35 | |
| Membranous Croup | |||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 103 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 63 | 4 | 46 | 30 | 27 | 13 | 8 | 8 |
| Scarlet Fever | 145 | 3 | 62 | 62 | 14 | 4 | 63 | 50 | 32 | 46 | 39 | 34 | |
| Typhus Fever | |||||||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 67 | 5 | 25 | 16 | 21 | 39 | 17 | 11 | 26 | 15 | 10 | ||
| Relapsing Fever | |||||||||||||
| Continued Fever | |||||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
| Plague | |||||||||||||
| Totals | 486 | 12 | 155 | 167 | 55 | 93 | 4 | 237 | 140 | 109 | 153 | 92 | 87 |