London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Chingford 1898
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
This page requires JavaScript
6
Zymotic Sickness and Mortality.
Twenty cases of infectious sickness were notified during the
past year, against nine in the previous year and twelve in 1896.
Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria were responsible for fifteen of these
cases, as will be seen in the subjoined table. The infectious
sickness-rate was 5.4 per 1,000 of the population.
The zymotic deaths were five in number, constituting a
zymotic death-rate of 1.35 per 1,000, against 0.84 in the previous
year and 1.7 per 1,000 in 1896. Only two deaths, however,
resulted from the more serious forms of epidemic disease.
In the Registrar General's last annual report we find that the mean annual zymotic mortality during the decennium 1887-96 was 2.61 per 1,000 for all England. In 67 medium-sized towns the mean zymotic death-rate in 1897 was 2.41 per 1 ,000.
| Zymotic Diseases. | Notifications. | Deaths. |
|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 8 | |
| Diphtheria | 7 | 1 |
| Typhoid Fever | 3 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 2 | |
| Diarrhoea | 3 | |
| Total | 20 | 5 |
Scarlet Fever.—Cases of this fever were notified during
the months of February and March, and again in July, August,
October and November. As many as five cases occurred in a