[Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.
- Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.
- Date:
- 1917
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1917] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![INFECTIOUS DISEASES. f Tho diseases Eluded in the Infectious Disease (Notification) Acts, 1889 and 1899, are: lollows : Smallpox, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Typhus Fever, Enteric Typhoid Fever, Relapsing Fever, Continued Fever, Puerperal Fever, Erysipelas, and Ash Cholera, to which have been added Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Cerebro-Spinal Fe\ and Poliomyelitis. The following cases were notified in 1917, and the numbers compared with the average of the previous ten years 1907 1908 T909 i 1910 1911 1 1912 1913 '914 I 1915 1 1916 Aver’ge for 10 Y ears k 19 Smallpox. 5 \ I * * • • * 1 1 • • • I . Scarlet Fever ... I 2? 73 2 2,s93 '3Goo 2,329 L939 1,84c 3,7i5 4,712 2,922 M85 2,796 8 Diphtheria.| Memb. Croup J 499 546 59s 498 472 479 65° 746 548 614 565 5 Typhus Fever ... I 20 2 10 1 1 1 3 Enteric Fever ... 265 393 369 358 256 242 1 .292 15^> 174 78 258 Relapsing Fever ... « . • ... * * * • * Puerperal Fever 95 101 84 *3* 130 124 124 104 94 99 109 Erysipelas .. 337 364 371 407 442 396 412 551 492 320 409 2 Ophthalmia Neonatorum I ... 246 443 503 331 414 414 379 390 3 Cerebro-Spinal Fever ... • « • ... . ... 1 j 6 1 2 *5 | 8 j i 6 Poliomyelitis ... I ' • • • ... • » • 55 6 12 | 8 9 18 ] 3,934?- J L 2 9 7 5,M2, 3.966, 3>692 1 3,64i 1 5.532 6,698. 1 4,667 2,692 4,555 2,11 The Annual Return of the Local Government Board dealing with notifiable diseases supplies the means of comparison with othpr localities, and also the means of ascertaining whether the numbers increase or decrease in the same manner for the whole country as for Manchester. It would be unreasonable to expect that the correspondence should be close, as some infectious disease? have epidemic waves differing in epoch as between one district and another. As a matter of fact, the curves of Scarlet Fever incidence for the whole country for London and for Manchester for 1911 and subsequent years rise and fall synchronously, though the shapes of the curves are different.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29785388_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
