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Holborn 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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The total number of notifications relating to Holborn residents received during
the year was 348 in comparison with 474 in the year 1930.
The decrease is accounted for by the lesser number of notifications received of the following diseases: —
| Smallpox | 3 in comparison with 14 in 1930. |
| Diphtheria | 69 „ „ 80 ,, |
| Scarlet Fever | 57 ,, ,, 90 ,, |
| Erysipelas | 17 ,, ,, 29 ,, |
| Rheumatism | 6 ,, ,, 13 ,, |
| *Chicken-pox | |
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 287 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 | 84 |
| Dysentery | 12 |
| Erysipelas | 11 |
| Typhoid Fever | 4 |
| Measles | 10 |
| Scarlet Fever | 51 |
| Tuberculosis | |
| Whooping Cough | 20 |
| Pneumonia | 2 |
| Cerebro Spinal Fever | 4 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 5 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 3 |
| Mumps | 1 |
| 287 |
Smallpox.
This disease continued to be prevalent in London throughout the year 1931.
Three notifications were received of cases occurring in Holborn residents
during the year 1931. All three patients were removed to hospital. In two of