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Stepney 1924

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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59
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1924.
Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.
Notifiable Disease.
Number of Cases notified.
Total Cases notified in each
Locality.
Total
removed
to
Hospital
At all
Ages
At Ages—Years.
Lime-
house
St.
George's
Mile
End
Whitechapel
Under
1 to 5
5 to 15
15 to 25
25 to 45
45 to 65
65 and
upwards
Smull-pox
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Cholera
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Plague
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Diphtheria (including
Membranous Croup)
444
18
211
156
33
22
4
...
86
69
199
90
439
Erysipelas
107
6
5
10
8
26
42
10
22
13
46
26
46
Scarlet Fever
537
6
217
262
39
13
...
...
110
82
213
132
534
Typhus Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Enteric Fever
27
...
5
4
7
8
3
...
2
4
17
4
27
Relapsing Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Continued Fever
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Puerperal Fever
14
...
...
...
4
10
...
...
4
3
2
5
13
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis
6
3
1
1
...
1
...
...
3
...
2
1
6
Polio-Myelitis
3
1
2
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
2
1
3
Polio-Encephalitis
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
...
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
22
22
...
...
...
...
...
...
7
1
7
7
8
Pulmonary Tuberculosis
461
...
5
48
102
164
127
15
60
94
189
118
284
Other forms of Tuberculosis
129
4
33
55
17
12
8
...
26
25
58
20
71
Encephalitis I.ethargica
38
1
...
13
15
7
2
...
5
4
19
10
26
Total
1788
61
479
549
225
263
186
25
325
295
754
414
1457