Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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NOTIFICATIONS | DEATHS | |||||||||||
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Decennial Average, 1921-1930 | Tear 1931 | Decennial Average, 1921-1930 | Year 1931 | |||||||||
Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Kate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Kate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | |
Small-pox | 6 | 0.15 | 0.17 | 3 | 0.08 | 0.33 | 0 | o.oo | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Diphtheria | 85 | 2.03 | 2.82 | 69 | 2.00 | 1.93 | 3 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.06 |
Erysipelas | 19 | 0.46 | 0.45 | 17 | 0.49 | 0.53 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.00 | 0.04 |
Scarlet Fever | 108 | 2.60 | 3.48 | 67 | 1.65 | 2.76 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
Enteric Fever | o | 0.11 | 0.08 | 4 | 0.12 | 0.04 | 01 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
Orebro-spinal Fever | 1 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 4 | 0.12 | 0.04 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | I | 0.01 | 0.01 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.01 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Whooping Cought | 100 | 2.42 | ... | 44 | 1.28 | ... | 5 | 0.11 | 0.13 | 4 | 0.12 | 0.07 |
Jleasles! | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 5 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary | 75 | 1.81 | 1.15 | 80 | 2.18 | 1.61 | 42 | 1.02 | 1.96 | 32 | 0.93 | 0.90 |
Ditto Non-Pulmonary | 15 | 0.36 | 0.40 | 8 | 0.44 | 0.32 | 6 | 0.15 | 0.16 | 6 | 0.17 | 0.13 |
Puerperal Fever* | 0 | 4.17 | 3.75 | 2 | 5.68 | 4.44 | 1 | 2.41 | 1.46 | 0 | 0.00 | |
Ditto Pyrexia * § | 6 | 14.55 | ... | 4 | 11.36 | 12.64 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 .01 | |||
Ophthalmia Neonatorum* | 8 | 14.87 | 9.49 | 7 | 19.88 | 9.60 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Diarrhoea (under 2 years)*‡ | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 6 | 11.07 | 1094 | 3 | 8.52 | 9.71 |
* Kates per 1,000 births.
† Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914.
‡ Not notifiable.
§ Average 4 years only.