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Holborn 1915
Report for the year 1915 of the Medical Officer of Health
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NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE BOROUGH DURING 1915, AND DURING THE PRECEDING TEN YEARS, AND RATES PER 1,000. (Excluding Naval and Military Cases).
| Year. | Small-pox. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Continued Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Cerebro-spinal Fever | Acute Polio-myelitis. | Total. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | |
| 1905 | 1 | 0.02 | 47 | 0.85 | 156 | 2.82 | 21 | 0.38 | 1 | 0.02 | 35 | 0.63 | 2 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 263 | 4.76 |
| 1906 | 0 | 0.00 | 66 | 1.22 | 137 | 2.53 | 15 | 0.28 | 0 | 0.00 | 56 | 1.03 | 2 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 276 | 5.10 |
| 1907 | 0 | 0.00 | 64 | 1.21 | 156 | 2.94 | 14 | 0.26 | 0 | 0.00 | 40 | 0.75 | 1 | 0 02 | 1 | 0.02 | — | — | 2 | 0.03 | — | — | 278 | 5.24 |
| 1908 | 0 | 0.00 | 50 | 0.94 | 193 | 3.64 | 25 | 0.47 | 0 | 0.00 | 46 | 0.87 | 2 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | 316 | 5.96 |
| 1909 | 1 | 0.02 | 47 | 0.92 | 98 | 1.92 | 16 | 0.31 | 1 | 0.02 | 41 | 0.80 | 3 | 0.06 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | 207 | 4.06 |
| 1910 | 0 | 0.00 | 45 | 0.90 | 68 | 1.36 | 25 | 0.50 | 0 | 0.00 | 42 | 0.84 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | 1 | 0.02 | — | — | 181 | 3.62 |
| 1911 | 0 | 0.00 | 85 | 1.74 | 120 | 2.45 | 10 | 0.20 | 0 | 0.00 | 37 | 0.76 | 2 | 0.04 | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 0.10 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 259 | 5.29 |
| 1912 | 0 | 0.00 | 88 | 1.83 | 113 | 2.36 | 12 | 0.25 | 0 | 0.00 | 48 | 1.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 0.10 | 1 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 267 | 5.56 |
| 1913 | 0 | 0.00 | 59 | 1.23 | 131 | 2.75 | 7 | 0.15 | 0 | 0.00 | 29 | 0.61 | 1 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 0.06 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.04 | 232 | 4.86 |
| 1914 | 0 | 0.00 | 63 | 1.35 | 173 | 3.71 | 15 | 0.32 | 0 | 0.00 | 22 | 0.47 | 4 | 0.09 | 0 | 0.00 | 6 | 0.13 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 283 | 6.06 |
| Average for 10 years 1905.1914. | 0.2 | 0.00 | 61.4 | 1.22 | 134.5 | 2.65 | 16.0 | 031 | 0.2 | 0.00 | 39.6 | 0.77 | 1.7 | 0.03 | 0.1 | 0.00 | 1.9 | 0.04 | 0.4 | 0.01 | 0.2 | 0.00 | 256.2 | 5.05 |
| 1915 | 0 | 0.00 | 67 | 1.66 | 154 | 3.82 | 6 | 0.15 | 0 | 0.00 | 28 | 0.70 | 2 | 005 | 0 | 0.00 | 6 | 0.15 | 10 | 0.24 | 0 | 0.00 | 273 | 6.78 |
| London,1915 | 13 | 0.00 | 9,094 | 2.12 | 16,974 | 3. 95 | 607 | 0.14 | 11 | 0.00 | 3,842 | 0.89 | 276 | 0.06 | 4 | 0.00 | 760 | 0.18 | 627 | 0.15 | 97 | 0.02 | 32,305 | 7.52 |
Chicken-pox was notifiable from October 19th, 1901, to January 6th, 1903, 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, and from 17th March to 30th June, 1915, during which period 27 notifications were received.
Anthrax, nil; Glanders, nil; Hydrophobia, nil;
There were also the following voluntary notifications of Phthisis:-
1904 344
1905 208
1906 191
1907 171
1908 152
1909 Voluntary 16
,, Poor Law 326
― 342
1910 Voluntary 16
„ Poor Law 154
― 170
1911 Voluntary 3
„ Hospital 81
,, Poor Law 104
― 188
1912 Private 35
,, Hospital 79
„ Poor Law 96
― 210
1913 Private 58
,, Hospitals 73
,, Poor Law 73
― 204
1914 Private 42
„ Hospitals 49
,, Poor Law 44
―135
1915 Private 84
,, Hospitals 49
„ Poor Law 65
―198
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Also 92 notifications of Whooping Cough which was made notifiable in Holborn for 5 years from 1st April, 1914.