Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orsett]
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TABLE III.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1903.
Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in whole District. | Total cases | Notified in each location | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||||
West and East Thurrock (h). | Aveley and Stiff ord. | Chad well-St - Mary and West Tilbury. | North and South Ockendon and Bulphan. | Orsett. | Stanford-le-Hope. | East Tilbury, Mucking, Corringham, and Fobbing. | Horndon-on-the-hill and Laindon Hills. | Union House. | West and East Thurrock (h). | Aveley and Stifford. | Chadwell- St. - Mary and West Tilbury. | North and South Ockendon and Bulphan. | Orsett. | Stanford-le-Hope. | East Tilbury, Mucking, Corringham, and Fobbing. | H orndon - on-the-hill and Laindon Hills. | Union House. | ||||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Small-pox | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Cholera | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Diphtheria | 34 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 3 | 5 | .. | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 1 | .. | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Membranous croup | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Erysipelas | 16 | 1 | 3 | .. | 2 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 |
Scarlet fever | 57 | 1 | 16 | 32 | 4 | 4 | .. | 14 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 4 | .. | .. | 7 | 4 | .. | 3 | 1 | 4 | .. | .. | .. |
Typhus fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
* Enteric fever | 28 | .. | .. | 9 | 8 | 11 | .. | 6 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | .. | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 6 | .. | 1 |
Relapsing fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | •• |
Continued fever | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Puerperal fever | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Plague | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Chicken-pox | 33 | 4 | 14 | 15 | .. | .. | .. | 15 | 13 | .. | .. | 2 | .. | 2 | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. |
Totals | 169 | 7 | 37 | 77 | 17 | 30 | 1 | 47 | 24 | 9 | 19 | 13 | 33 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 6 | .. | 2 |
Noras—The localities adopted for this table should be the same as those in Table II. & IV. Mark (H) the locality in which it is situated, or if not within the district, state where
State the name of the isolation hospital, if any, used by the sick of the district. *10 cases of Typhoid Fever sent from T.S. " Cornwall" to their Shore Hospital, Purfleet, were
it is situated, and in what district. Orsett Joint Isolation Hospital. notified to me but not included in this Table as they came into the district with the disease on them.