London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Finsbury 1913
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1913
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The actual numbers notified year by year were:—577, 802, 561,
1,036, 478, 245, 436, 898, 384, 625 and 276 from 1903 to 1913
respectively.
| Under 1 year of age in months | 1— | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5-10 | 10-15 | Total 1903-1913 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-3 | 3-6 | 6-9 | 9-12 | |||||||
| 3 | 15 | 56 | 96 | 352 | 116 | 73 | 21 | 19 | 8 | 759 |
The deaths year by year were 69, 60, 31, 115, 43, 38, 86, 73, 85,
129 and 30 from 1903 to 1913.
The cases were most numerous in 1906, the deaths in 1912. In
both these years the disease was very prevalent.
The affected households are visited by the Lady Sanitary
Inspector, who gives the parents suitable advice as to nursing and
feeding the patients. A leaflet of instruction is left at the house,
and dispensary tickets given for those children needing treatment.
These leaflets are distributed and re-distributed to every tenement
in those streets where measles is known to occur.
The dirty tenements are disinfected at the end of the case. The
rooms were disinfected in 185 tenements.
Hooping Cough.—This is not a notifiable disease. Informa
tion of cases is generally received from schools and from the
other bodies and persons who send notices of measles.
The deaths numbered 30; all were under five years of age.
Disinfection is done on request: it is not done as a routine
after recovery.
The hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board are now available
for the reception of non-pauper cases as well as of pauper
cases of hooping cough.
The deaths from measles and hooping cough from 1909 to 1913,
distributed according to streets and large blocks of buildings, are
given in the annexed list:—