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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 1923

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, for the year 1923

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Table: TABLE III.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1923.

TABLE III.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1923.

Notifiable Disease.Number of Cases Notified.Total Cases Notified in each Locality (e.g. Parish or Ward) of the District.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.St. Giles and Bloomsbury.Holborn.Total Cases Removed to Hospitals.
Under 11 to 55 to 1616 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and wards.
Small-pox.................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)984262231123...257397
Erysipelas14......21344689
Scarlet Fever1023384696......1884102
Enteric Fever2......11.........112
Puerperal Fever3.........3.........123
Cerebro-Spinal Fever11..................1...1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum66..................164
Dysentery..............................
Malaria1.........1............1...
Pneumonia—Primary4364138156123126
do. Influenzal5......1...211...55
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary50......2922161262420
do. Non-Pulmonary10...1341...1465
Whooping Cough93135624............435022
Chicken Pox57625261.........1047...
Acute Poliomyelitis211..................21
Encephalitis Lethargica.................................
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