Infectious disease data

Data, mostly time-series of case reports, on measles and chickenpox from various regions (England and Wales, New York City, Copenhagen, Baltimore County ...) Also includes some miscellaneous geographic and demographic data that I consider to be useful. Most of these data have been manually entered from published records by various people, and are prone to errors at several levels. All data are provided as is. Feel free to e-mail me (bolker@zoology.ufl.edu) with questions or corrections, but use at your own risk.

A note on data formats

England and Wales

Most England and Wales data is either from the weekly OPCS (Office of Population Censuses and Surveys) reports, from the Registrar General's Quarterly or Annual Reports, or from various English census reports.

England and Wales aggregate data

E&W 1948-1967 England and Wales, weekly case reports 1948-1967. Format: {YYYY.FFFF cases}
E&W birth rates England and Wales quarterly total births, 1948-1957. Format: {YYYY.FF births}
E&W/Grt Britain family sizes numbers of married women with different family sizes, Great Britain and England Wales, from the 1961 Census Format: {# Great_Britain E&W}
E&W map Coordinates of coastline of England, Wales, and Scotland. Format: {longitude latitude}

England and Wales: 7 major cities

(London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Bristol, Newcastle)

E&W cities 1948-1987 Seven cities, weekly case reports 1948-1967. Format: {YY MM DD cases ...}
E&W city populations From a British census ca. (?) 1950.

Critical community size data

Baltimore

Baltimore (city) monthly cases Format: {YYYY.FFF cases}
sporadic data on Baltimore demography (date, pop size, total births, resident births, total deaths, resident deaths)
notes on sources of Baltimore demographic data

Copenhagen

Copenhagen monthly cases {YYYY.FFF cases}
Copenhagen annual birth rates (units??? births per 100000??)

New York City

NYC monthly cases {YYYY.FFF cases}
NYC misc. demography {year, births, resident births, deaths, resident deaths, population}