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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 1924

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1924.Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

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 AgesAt Ages—Years.Lime- houseSt. George'sMile EndWhite-chapel
Under1 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and upwards
Smull-pox.......................................
Cholera.......................................
Plague.......................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)4441821115633224...866919990439
Erysipelas107651082642102213462646
Scarlet Fever53762172623913......11082213132534
Typhus Fever.......................................
Enteric Fever27...54783...2417427
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever14.........410......432513
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis6311...1......3...216
Polio-Myelitis312.....................213
Polio-Encephalitis.......................................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2222..................71778
Pulmonary Tuberculosis461...548102164127156094189118284
Other forms of Tuberculosis1294335517128...2625582071
Encephalitis I.ethargica381...131572...54191026
Total178861479549225263186253252957544141457