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Holborn 1911

Report for the year 1911 of the Medical Officer of Health

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NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE BOROUGH DURING 1911, AND DURING THE PRECEDING TEN YEARS,AND RATES PER 1,000.

Year.Small-pox.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.Scarlet Fever.Enteric Fever.Continued Fever.Erysipelas.Puerperal Fever.Typhus Fever.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Cerebrospinal FeverAcute Polio-myelitis.Total.
No.Rate per 1000.No.Rate per 1000.No.Rate per 1000.No.Rate per 1000.NoRate per 1000.No.Rate per 1000.No.Rate per 1000.No.Rate per 1000.No.Rate per 1000.No.Rate per 1000.No.Rate per 1000.No.Rate per 1000.
19012113.571612.722544.29390.6600.00891.5020.0310.02------75712.79
19022173.731131.942023.47390.6700.00851.4660.1000.00-66211.37
190320.03530.931442.52530.9320.03901.5740.0700.00-----3486.08
190460.11460.82991.76410.7300.00771.3770.1200.00-2764.91
190510.02470.851562.82210.3810.02350.6320.0300.002634.76
190600.00661.221372.53150.2800.00561.0320.0300.00-----2765.10
190700.00641.211562.94140.2600.00400.7510.0210.02-20.03--2785.24
190800.00500.941933.64250.4700.00460.8720.0300.00-00.00--3165.96
190910.02470.92981.92160.3110.02410.8030.0600.00--00.00--2074.06
191000.00450.90681.36250.5000.00420.8400.0000.00-10.02--1813.62
Average for 10 years 1901-1910.43.80.7569.21.25150.72.7328.80.520.40.0160.11.082.90.050.20.00356.46.39
191100.00851.741202.45100.2000.00370.7620.0400.0050.1000.0000.002595.29
London,1911720.027,4041.6410,5002.331,0240.23230.014,9041.093030.0710.006740.151000.02690.0225,0745.56

Chicken-pox was notifiable from October 19th, 1901. to January 6th, 1908. inclusive, during which time 282 notifications were received, and from April 8th to
November 6th, 1904, inclusive, during which time 61 notifications were received; and in 1911, from 22nd March to 21st June, during which period 101
notifications were received.
Anthrax, nil; Glanders, nil; Hydrophobia, nil; Acute Polio-myelitis, nil; Acute Encephalitis, nil.
There were also the following voluntary notifications of Phthisis:-
1904 344 1908 162 1911 Voluntary 3
1905 208 1909 Voluntary 16 „ Hospital 81
1906 191 „ Poor Law 326 „ Poor Law 104
1907 171 342 188
1910 Voluntary 16
„ Poor Law 154
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