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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 1928

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]

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Table: Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1928.Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1928.

Metropolitan Borough of Stepney.

Notifiable Disease.Number of Cases notified.Total Cases notified in each Locality.Total removed Hospital
At all AgesAt Ages—Years.Lime- houseSt. George'sMile EndWhite-
Under 11 to 65 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and upwards
Small-pox4.........22......1...3...4
Cholera.......................................
Plague.......................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)6462225430148192191110238107644
Erysipelas14631511194042162927583269
Scarlet Fever1324938781592201...2942385482441313
Typhus Fever2...............2............22
Enteric Fever52...7197118...4534952
Relapsing Fever.......................................
Continued Fever.......................................
Puerperal Fever13.........211......343311
Puerperal Pyrexia14.........311......5...7214
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis514..................1815
Polio-Myelitis1...1.....................1...1
Polio-Encephalitis1...1.....................1...1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3434..................10217517
Pulmonary Tuberculosis409183010814710015895517095295
Other forms of Tuberculosis1283195326198...3023482771
Encephalitis Lethargica5...11...3......21115
Totals27847369712303072831633165846611325282504