Statistics of the incidence of notifiable infectious diseases in each sanitary district in England and Wales during the year 1911.

Date:
1912
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Credit: Statistics of the incidence of notifiable infectious diseases in each sanitary district in England and Wales during the year 1911. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sickness Statistics foe 1911. In the present Deport it is proposed to confine comment to the contents of the two summary tables on pp. 12-15. Each Medical Officer of Health will be able to pursue comparisons as required by consulting the detailed tables for the different counties. During 1911 the total number of cases of the chief notifiable diseases in England and Wales was as follows: — Disease. England and No. of cases notified. Wales, 1911. Rate per 1,000 of population. Small Pox 265 o-oi Typhus Fever ... 65 o-oo Scarlet Fever ... 104,617 2-90 Diphtheria 47,747 1-32 Enteric Fever ... 13,730 0*38 Continued Fever 176 0*00 Relapsing Fever 1 — Puerperal Fever 2,029 0-06 Erysipelas 24.939 0-69 Cholera... — — Plague ... 1 — Pulmonary Tuberculosis (partial returns) 35,107 — In addition to the above, the following cases were notified to port sanitary authorities, being chiefly cases of imported disease: — Small-pox, 30; Scarlet Fever, 34; Diphtheria, 55; Enteric Fever, 122; Erysipelas, 11; Continued Fever, 3; Pulmonary Tuber- culosis, 28. In the following table a comparison is given of the rates for the chief diseases in certain large aggregations of population : — Sickness Rates per 1,000 of Population. • i Small Pox. Typhus Fever. Scarlet Fever. Diph- theria. Enteric Fever. Puerp- eral Fever. Erysip- elas. England and Wales ... o-oi o-oo 2-90 1-32 0-38 0*06 0-69 England o-oi o-oo 2-84 1*33 0-38 0-06 0-71 Wales (including Monmouth) o-oo — 3-66 3-30 0-38 0*06 0-44 London ••• ••• ••• 0-02 o-oo 2-33 1*64 0-23 0-07 1*09 Aggregate of Administrative Counties of :— England (excluding London) o-oi o-oo 2-71 1-22 0-39 0-04 0-56 Wales o-oo — 3-62 1 21 0-40 0-06 0-44 Aggregate of County Boroughs of :— England o-oi o-oo 3-32 1-47 0-43 0-08 0-81 W ales ••• ••• ••• ' 3-85 1-68 0*26 0-04 0-47 A comparison may next be made of the incidence of each disease in different parts of the country. Small-pox.—In England and Wales 265 cases of small-pox were notified. Twenty cases occurred in towns connected with