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Walthamstow 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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DEATHS FROM NOT1F1ABLE 1NFECT1OUS
D1SEASES.
The importance of the deaths in this Group lies in the fact that they
are largely preventable and to a great extent within the control of
Public Health Administration.
The diseases referred to here are those g1ven in previous reports.
All those now made not1fiable are given in the Table following page 30.
Encephalitis Lethargica, mistaken tor Botulism in 1918, but now looked on as probably 1nfluenza 1n protean forms, caused no deaths, as compared with 3 in 1919, and Pol1omyelitis none.
| Names of Diseases. | Whole District. | Wards, 1920. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deaths, 1920. | Deaths, 1919. | Deaths, 1918. | Deaths, 1917. | Increase + Decrease - | St. James Street. | H1gh Steeet. | Hoe Street. | Wood Street. | Hale End. | H1gham Hill. | |
| Small-Pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | - |
| Scariatina | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| D1phtheria | 19 | 20 | 16 | 24 | - 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 |
| Typhoid | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | — | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 4 | 3 | — | 1 | + 1 | — | - | — | 1 | 3 | — |
| Puerperal Fever | 4 | 1 | 2 | — | + 3 | 1 | - | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pol1omyelitis | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Phthisis | 102 | 111 | 165 | 149 | - 9 | 23 | 18 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 24 |
| Total | 131 | 139 | 188 | 181 | - 8 | 30 | 21 | 18 | 19 | 16 | 27 |
The deaths from the f1rst s1x d1seases on the l1st were 1n prev1ous
years as follows :—
1919,27; 1918, 30; 1917, 33; 1916, 48; 1915, 67; 1914, 48;
1913, 81 ; 1912, 83 ; 1911, 48.
The lowest and h1ghest 1n years back to 1899 were 24 1n 1910, and
104 1n 1899.