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Southwark 1924

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

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Table: Table 12.Cases of Infectious Disease.Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, during each week of the year 1924.

Table 12.

Cases of Infectious Disease.

Notified to the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, during each week of the year 1924.

Week Ending.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Enteric Fever.Cerebrospinal Fever.Small-Pox.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.Anthrax.Ophthalmia NeonatorumPhthisis.Other forms of Tuberculosis.Measles.Encephalitis Lethargica.Epidemic Diarrhœa.Pneumonia.Polio-Myelitis.Malaria.Dysentery.Total.
1923
Jan. 5714............12......65143......8.........186
„ 12618...........................7382......2.........118
„ 191323............3...29...140......4...1...195
,, 261611............32......121121......11......177
Feb. 21317............2.........84130......12.........186
„ 91218............2.........71119......8.........167
„ 164162......2.........145140......21.........204
„ 2346............32.... . .11...106......9.........141
March 1617............1...1114105......6.........151
„ 81018............1.........13465......9.........120
„ 15613............2......14368......9.........106
„ 2211181.........3.........7267......3.........112
„ 29618............2.........92641...9.........111
April 545..................1131371...3.........65
„ 12119............2.........52372...5.........73
„ 19813......1...3.........134316...5.........84
„ 26520............1......112151......8.........99
May 3813...3......22...1102244...7.........76
„ 10413............1......84423...4.........79
„ 171114...11...2.........114231...4.........72
„ 24916............2.........68331...6.........81
„ 311817...1......61...27221......2.........77