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Holborn 1915
Report for the year 1915 of the Medical Officer of Health
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DEATHS FROM EPIDEMIC DISEASES OCCURRING IN THE BOROUGH DURING THE YEAR 1915 AND DURING THE PRECEDING TEN YEARS.
| Year. | Small-pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhoea. | Total. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number. | Hate per 1000. | Number. | Rate per 1000. | Number. | Rate per 1000. | Number. | Rate per 1000. | Number. | Rate per 1000. | Number. | Rate per 1000. | Number. | Kate per 1000. | Number. | Rate per 1000. | |
| 1905 | — | — | 11 | 0.20 | 3 | 0.05 | 4 | 0.07 | 15 | 0.27 | 4 | 0.07 | 22 | 0.40 | 59 | 1.07 |
| 1906 | —_ | —_ | 25 | 0.46 | 2 | 0.04 | 7 | 0.13 | 10 | 0.18 | 1 | 0.02 | 39 | 0.72 | 84 | 1.55 |
| 1907 | —_ | — | 13 | 0.34 | 3 | 0.06 | 10 | 0.19 | 27 | 0.51 | 2 | 0.04 | 16 | 0.30 | 71 | 1.34 |
| 1908 | —_ | —_ | 10 | 0.18 | 6 | 0.11 | 6 | 0.09 | 7 | 0.13 | 4 | 0.08 | 26 | 0.49 | 58 | 1.09 |
| 1909 | —_ | —_ | 14 | 0.27 | 3 | 0.08 | 3 | 0.06 | 15 | 0.29 | 0.02 | 7 | 0.14 | 43 | 0.84 | |
| 1910 | —_ | —___ | 13 | 0.26 | — | — | 4 | 0.08 | 16 | 0.32 | 4 | 0.08 | 6 | 0.12 | 43 | 0.86 |
| 1911 | —_ | — | 15 | 0.31 | 3 | 0.06 | 3 | 0.06 | 3 | 0.06 | 2 | 0.04 | 33* | 0.67* | 59 | 1.21 |
| 1912 | —_ | — | 25 | 0.52 | 0 | 0.00 | 6 | 0.13 | 7 | 0.15 | 1 | 0.02 | 8* | 0.17* | 47 | 0.98 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | 0.15 | 0 | 0.00 | 4 | 0.08 | 6 | 0.13 | 0 | 0.02 | 12* | 0.25* | 29 | 0.61 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | 0.24 | 2 | 0.04 | 3 | 0.06 | 9 | 0.19 | 6 | 0.13 | 11* | 0.24* | 42 | 0.90 |
| Average for 10 years 1905-1914. | 0.0 | 0.00 | 14. 4 | 0.29 | 2.2 | 0.04 | 4.9 | 0.10 | 11.5 | 0.22 | 2.5 | 0.05 | 18.0 | 0.35 | 53.5 | 1.04 |
| 1915 | — | — | 19 | 0.47 | 1 | 0.02 | 11 | 0.27 | 12 | 0.30 | 1 | 0.02 | 11 | 0.27 | 55† | 1.37 |
| London, 1915. | 3 | 0.00 | 2,272 | 0.53 | 332 | 0.08 | 699 | 0.16 | 1,146 | 0.27 | 120 | 0.03 | 2,542* | 0.59* | 7,114 | 1.66 |
* The Registrar General since 1911 has taken the deaths from Diarrhœa and Enteritis under two years of age.
† Exclusive of Naval and Military deaths.
MEASLES.
We received information of 268 cases in comparison with 203 in 1914, 75 in
1913, 202 in 1912, 101 in 1911, and 234 in 1910. There were 19 deaths or a
rate of 0.47 per thousand in comparison with a decennial rate of only 0.29. Of
these only 5 belonged to St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 14 to the Holborn
District. 13 of the 19 were under 2 years of age.
During the year the Education Department of the London County Council
excluded all the unprotected children from certain classes, in the Infants'
Department, of the undermentioned schools from and up to the dates specified:—
Wild Street Class Room A. February 4th to 19th.
St. George-the-Martyr „ B. February 4th to 12th.
Do. „ D. April 28th to May 14th.
Princeton Street „ B. February 15th to 26th.
Do. „ B. October 27th to 6th November.
St. Giles „ C. April 28th to May 4th.
St. John-the-Evangelist „ D. December 13th to 23rd.