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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
Southwark 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS, 1919.
Estimated population 179,971
Total Births 4,176
Total Deaths 2,728
Birth Rate for London 18.3
Do. Southwark 23.2
Death Rate for London 13.4
Do. Southwark 15.1
Cases of Infectious Diseases Notified.
Measles 730
Encephalitis Lethargica 3
Epidemic Diarrhæa 252
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 55
Scarlet Fever 799
Enteric Fever 12
Diphtheria 500
Erysipelas 209
Puerperal Fever 19
Membranous Croup 5
Anthrax 2
Cerebro-Spinal Fever 6
Phthisis 494
Other Tuberculosis 183
Polio-Myelitis 2
Influenzal Pneumonia 149
Primary Pneumonia 73
Malaria 86
Dysentery 6
Total 3,590