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Southwark 1918

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]

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62
PHTHISIS.

Table: TABLE 27.Cases of Infectious Disease.Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, during each week of the year 1918.

TABLE 27.

Cases of Infectious Disease.

Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, during each week of the year 1918.

Week Ending.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Enteric Fever.Cerebrospinal Fever.PolioMyelitisErysipelas.Puerperal Fever.Continued Fever.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Phthisis.Other forms of Tuberculosis.Measles.Chicken Pox.Epidemic Diarrhoea.Total.
1918
Jan. 589......1...3.........11...60......97
„ 12118............12...18440......75
„ 19811............3......117744......91
„ 269121.........2......112538......80
Feb. 23171.........2......19165......99
„ 9518......1...4.........18632......84
„ 16515......1...41...213254......97
„ 23610111...3......19565......102
March 2512l1......3......17146......77
„ 9691.........6......122847......100
„ 16710............3......113459......97
„ 23914......2...3.........215103......157
„ 3037............2......2196134......173
April 658............4.........10211030...169
„ 1358............3......215614635...220
„ 2038............21......10111022...157
„ 2766............1......16410715...146
May 495...1......5.........12210623...165
„ 11108............3......18610614...156
„ 1899...11...2......210514815...202
„ 25124............1.........10213111...171
June 185............21...21578515...140
„ 8717............2......11568313...144
15136...1......1......11828914...145
22128............1l......105717...115
„ 291619............3l...143528...107
July 6165............1• ••......113551...92
„ 132315............4.........9246......99
„ 20288...1......21...219729......97
„ 27105............2.........12426......59
August 386............5......116425......66
„ 10126............2......110119......51
171211............2.........8321......57
„ 24176...1......4.........429......43
„ 31107...l......2.........1726......45
Sept. 7259............3......2548...3389
143113............2l...11235...41109
.. 211617............3......17510...3897
„ 281711............4......2839...1367
Oct. 52111............2.........1343...559
„ 121891.........7.........1046......55
„ 19177l.........41...19...5......45
„ 26266............9......21054......62
Nov. 2256............31...31033......54
„ 920102.........2......1981......53
„ 162471.........2......1771......50
„ 23107............51......1235......43
„ 301212............1......134.........33
Dec. 71571.........7.........1022......44
„ 14127............1......2942......37
211614............2......11221......48
„ 28126........................515......29
Year6534911387...1501214557919524422231304949