London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 Stepney]
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TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in Whole District. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | No. of Cases removed to Hospitals from each Locality. | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Mile End Infirmary. | London Hospital. | Children's Hospital. | St. Bartholomew's Hospital. | Eastern South Eastern. and North Eastern Hospitals. | Hospital for Sick Children. | Mile End Old Town. | Mile End Infirmary. | London Hospital. | Children's Hospital. | St. Batholomew's Hospital. | Eastern. South Eastern, and North Eastern Hospitals. | Hospital for Sick Children. | ||||||
| Under 1. | i to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards | |||||||||||||||
| Small-pox | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| Cholera | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 286 | 3 | 75 | 58 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 99 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 79 | 1 | 86 | 21 | 3 | 2 | |||
| Membranous Croup | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 180 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 89 | 10 | 9 | 30 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 331 | 2 | 71 | 131 | 26 | 3 | 2 | 59 | 10 | 2 | 25 | 138 | 2 | 52 | 10 | 2 | 25 | |||
| Typhus Fever | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 113 | 7 | 26 | 20 | 33 | 4 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 45 | 4 | 19 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Relapsing Fever | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Continued Fever | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Plague | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Totals | 923 | 9 | 166 | 228 | 81 | 138 | 10 | 16 | 210 | 33 | 3 | 28 | 2 | 268 | 7 | 157 | 32 | 3 | 28 | 2 |