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Southwark 1919

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

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Table: TABLE 16.Cases of Infectious Disease.Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, during each week of the year 1919. _

TABLE 16.

Cases of Infectious Disease.

Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, during each week of the year 1919. _

Week Ending.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Enteric Fever.Cerebrospinal Fever.Polio-Myelitis.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.Anthrax.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Phthisis.Other forms of Tuberculosis.Measles.Encephalitis Lethargica.Epidemic Diarrhsea.Influenzal Pneumonia.Primary Pneumonia.Malaria.Dysentery.Total.
1919............................................................
Jan. 4115............2.........10l1..................30
„ 11 ...87............1......31373..................42
„ 18 ...126............4......1922..................37
„ 25 ...511............1......19610..................43
Feb. 1105............4.........642..................32
8 ...77............1.........933..................31
„ 15 ...109............7......i1335..................48
„ 22 ...„ 4151.........1......2831..................35
March 113131...1...6......212...2..................51
„ 8 ...9142.........2.........1532......54.........101
„ 15 ...47............2.........959......31.........68
„ 22O O5............4......11034......165......5l
„ 2979............2.........9312......521...50
April 51011............2......19616......532...66
„ 1278............2......110310......651...54
„ 19 ...1019............6.........13711......221...71
„ 26 ...59............4......110514......62......56
May 364.....................211411......221...46
„ 1097............1......41013......5.........40
„ 17 ...1311...1......5......113418......2.........69
„ 24 ...1011...1......O.........11116......15......58
„ 31 1411...1......3...12101212.........43...76