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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1910
Report for the year 1910 of the Medical Officer of Health
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| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in whole District. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | No. or Cases removed to hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages—Years. | St. Giles and Bloomsbury. | Holborn. | St. Giles and Bloomsbury. | Holborn. | |||||||
| At all Ages. | Under 1. | 1 to 5 | 6 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | |||||
| Small-pox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cholera | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 45 | 1 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 6 | – | 12 | 33 | 11 | 33 |
| Erysipelas | 42 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 4 | 17 | 25 | 9 | 9 |
| Scarlet Fever | 68 | 2 | 20 | 30 | 11 | 5 | – | 29 | 39 | 27 | 39 |
| Typhus Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Enteric Fever | 25 | – | 2 | 6 | 5 | 12 | – | 8 | 17 | 5 | 16 |
| Relapsing Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Continued Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Puerperal Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Plague | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – |
| Totals | 181 | 6 | 35 | 59 | 28 | 49 | 4 | 67 | 111 | 53 | 97 |
Note.— he Isolation Hospitals are those of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and the London Fever
Hospital. A few cases are treated at General Hospitals and Infirmaries.
There were also 170 notifications of Phthisis (Consumption), 61 belonging to St. Giles
and Bloomsbury, and 109 to the Holborn Division.