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The total number of notifications relating to Holborn residents received during
the year was 474 in comparison with G43 in the year 1929.
The decrease is accounted for by the lesser number of notifications received of
the following diseases : —
Smallpox 14 in comparison with 43 in 1929.
Scarlet Fever 90 ,, ,, 130 ,,
Whooping Cough 33 ,, ,, 153 ,,
Pneumonia 49 ,, ,, 89 ,,
Rheumatism 13 ,, ,, 25 ,,
Attention has had again especially to be called to the non-notification of
whooping cough and primary pneumonia. A special reference card with complete
list of notifiable diseases is supplied to all doctors practising in the Borough.
In addition to the above we received 175 notifications respecting patients not residing
in Holborn, many being in-patients of hospitals in the Borough. All these were forwarded
to the Medical Officers of Health of the districts concerned. The diseases notified were : —
Chicken-pox 2
Diphtheria 88
Dysentery 1
Erysipelas 3
Enteric Fever 1
Measles 29
Scarlet Fever 22
Tuberculosis 28
Whooping Cough 1
175
Smallpox.
This disease continued to be prevalent in London throughout the year 1930.
In the Borough of Holborn the Public Health Department was called on to
deal with 65 cases, viz., 13 residents, 51 non-resident workers and one common
lodging house inmate who removed from the Borough just before the disease was
diagnosed. Eight of the residents were notified by the Medical Officer of Health.
Two residents, other than the 13 mentioned above, were also notified, but the
diagnosis was not confirmed. The 13 cases among residents occurred in nine
houses. In one house there were three cases, in each of two there were two
cases and from each of six house one case was notified. Five of the nine houses
were tenement lodging houses, two were self-contained working-class flats and
one was a common lodging house. In contact with these were 80 persons
exclusive of the contacts at the common lodging houses.
The 52 non-resident cases occurred at 47 workplaces and one common lodging
house; in each of four workplaces two cases occurred. In contact with the 52
cases there were upwards of 3,711 persons excluding the residents at the common
lodging house and students at a school where a non-resident patient was employed.