Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]
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Disease | Kenninghall | Pembury | Kings land | Albion | Town Hall | Triangle | Chatham | Kingsmead | Wick | Victoria | Northfield | Springfield | Northwold | Rectory | Leabridge | Rushmore | Totals |
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Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Dysentery | 13 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | 7 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 103 |
Encephalitis, Post-infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Erysipelas | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 27 |
Food Poisoning | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | 19 |
Malaria | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
Measles | 116 | 86 | 64 | 97 | 95 | 112 | 133 | 70 | 66 | 158 | 84 | 59 | 143 | 78 | 101 | 46 | 1,508 |
Meningococcal Infection | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 7 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
Paratyphoid Pever | 4 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 8 |
Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 17 |
Pneumonia, Acute Primary | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | - | 5 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 43 |
Poliomyelitis, paralytic | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 10 |
Poliomyelitis, non-paralytic | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 71 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | 6 | 3 | - | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 97 |
Scabies | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 27 |
Scarlet fever | 12 | 15 | 16 | 12 | 21 | 23 | 28 | 16 | 30 | 24 | 8 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 45 | 22 | 291 |
Typhoid fever | - | . - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Whooping Cough | 55 | 32 | 30 | 34 | 21 | 42 | 41 | 81 | 54 | 73 | 42 | 29 | 53 | 48 | 58 | 43 | 736 |
Totals | 279 | 157 | 130 | 158 | 155 | 206 | 215 | 184 | 154 | 263 | 155 | 122 | 221 | 150 | 229 | 128 | 2,906 |