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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 1922

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922

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Table: Deaths of Children 1 to 5 Years. Thirty children died between the ages 1 to 5 years from the following causes:—

Deaths of Children 1 to 5 Years. Thirty children died between the ages 1 to 5 years from the following causes:—

Cause of Death.Ages.Total. 1—5
1—22-33-44—5
Scarlet Fever...1......1
Diphtheria21...14
Whooping Cough32......5
Tuberculosis1...1...2
Measles3.........3
Influenza1.........1
Bronchitis...1......1
Pneumonia511...7
Congenital Syphilis1.........1
Convulsions1...1...2
Amæmia.........11
Cancer...1......1
Shock (Burns)...1......1
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE AMONG MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
No case of puerperal fever was notified.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
During the year 11 eases of ophthalmia neonatorum occurring in babies born
in the Borough were brought to our notice.
Nine of the 11 cases were notified in accordance with the Public Health
(Ophthalmia Neonatorum) Regulations, 1914, four of the notifications being from
hospitals four from private medical practitioners, and one from the Medical Officer
of the Maternity Centre.
One case was only notified after communication with the doctor and one case
was not notified by either doctor or midwife in attendance.
Unless each case is notified to the Local Medical Officer of Health the public
will be ignorant of the real extent of the disease: the whole of the cases cannot be
followed up to ascertain the amount of permanent damage done to the eyesight.
In the following Tables particulars are given as to each case: —