[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch].

  • Shoreditch (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1928]
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    8 50, which yield a zymotic death-rate of 0.48 per 1,000 population. Including deaths from enteritis under two years this rate is increased to 0.54 per 1,000. A comparison of the zymotic death-rates of London and Shoreditch and the eight Wards of the Borough is given in Table VI. (Appendix). The rate was highest in Wenlock and lowest in Moorfields. The cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, enteric fever and puerperal fever and pyrexia, numbered 961, as compared with 28,990 for the Metropolis ; the attack-rates were 9-2 for Shoreditch and 6.4 per 1,000 population for London. Excluding tuberculosis the following table shows the numbers of cases of in fectious disease certified in the Borough, the numbers of the cases removed to hospita and the numbers of deaths attributed to the diseases specified, the numbers of cases for the four quarters of the year being given also :— Disease. First Quarter Second Quarter Third Quarter Fourth Quarter Total. Cases admittec to Hospita] Deaths. Smallpox Scarlet Fever or Scar latina 70 98 101 114 383 376 3 Diphtheria and Mem branous Croup 129 92 108 138 467 466 12 Enteric Fever 1 ... 1 2 4 4 1 Puerperal Fever 3 2 6 11 9 2 Puerperal Pyrexia 14 7 8 5 34 23 2 Acute Primary Pneu monia 125 42 30 76 273 217 46 Acute Influenzal Pneu monia 11 3 1 6 21 13 2 Erysipelas 16 14 12 20 62 27 6 Typhus Fever ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Cholera ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Continued Fever ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Relapsing Fever ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Plague ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Cerebro-Spinal Fever 1 ... ... ... 1 1 ... Glanders ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Hydrophobia ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Anterior Polio-myelitis 1 ... ... 1 2 2 ... Encephalitis Lethar gica I 1 ... 2 4 2 1 Ophthalmia Neona¬ ... ... ... ... ... ... ... torum 23 11 10 5 49 3 ... Malaria ... ... ... 3 3 ... ... Dysentery ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Totals 395 270 271 378 1,314 1,143 75 Numbers and Per centages of cases 340 229 234 340 1,143 removed to hospi- tals. 86.1% 84.8% 86.3% 92.6% 87.0%