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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
Ilford 1918
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ilford]
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Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1918.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of cases notified. | Total notified in each Locality | Total cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages-years. | Cranbrooke Ward | Park; Ward. | Seven Kings. | North Hainault. | Loxford Ward. | Clement swood. | South Hainault | ||||||||
| Under 1 yr. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and over. | ||||||||||
| Small Pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera, Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 216 | 1 | 43 | 136 | 25 | 11 | - | - | 9 | 33 | 21 | 46 | 36 | 49 | 22 | 166 |
| Erysipelas | 27 | 2 | 2 | - | 5 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 5 | - | 2 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 6 |
| Scarlet Fever | 167 | - | 14 | 118 | 29 | 6 | - | - | 6 | 26 | 8 | 79 | 15 | 26 | 7 | 74 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | 32 | - | 3 | 12 | 10 | 7 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 25 | - | 4 | - | 6 |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Cerebro Spinal Meringitis | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 129 | - | - | 8 | 35 | 60 | 20 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 6 | 20 | 26 | 20 | 20 | - |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 39 | - | 7 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 1 | - | 3 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | - |
| Measles | 204 | - | 126 | 78 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 27 | 38 | 12 | 31 | 65 | 22 | - |
| German Measles | 72 | - | 16 | 41 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | 5 | 5 | 19 | 1 | 11 | 5 | 26 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 8 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 3 |
| TOTALS | 900 | 11 | 213 | 408 | 124 | 106 | 30 | 8 | 51 | 128 | 100 | 196 | 134 | 182 | 109 | 259 |