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City of Westminster 1930
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Table XXIV.
City of Westminster.—Infectious Diseases, Distributed in each Ward.
| Notifiable Diseases. | Conduit. | Grosvenor. | Knightsbridge St. George. | Victoria. | St. Margaret. | St. John. | Hamlet of Knightsbridge. | Pall Mall. | Regent. | Great Marlborough. | Charing Cross. | Covent Garden. | Strand. | St. Anne. | Homeless and non residents. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | 2 | _ | _ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cholera (C). Plague (R) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diphtheria | — | 8 | 22 | 79 | 9 | 93 | 3 | 1 | 10 | — | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 9 |
| Erysipelas | — | — | 4 | 13 | — | 12 | — | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Scarlet fever | — | 12 | 11 | 93 | 7 | 110 | — | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | — | 10 | 3 |
| Typhus fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Enteric fever | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | — | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Relapsing fever (R) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Continued fever (C) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Puerperal fever | — | 1 | — | 3 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis | |||||||||||||||
| Poliomyelitis | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Encephalitis lethargica | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | — | 1 | 1 | 5 | — | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | —1 | — | 2 | — |
| Pneumonia | — | — | 6 | 9 | 2 | 5 | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Malaria | — | — | _ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Puerperal pyrexia | — | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 4 | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Chicken-pox | 25 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 7 | 18 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||
| Totals | 26 | 27 | 58 | 237 | 27 | 239 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 20 | 5 | 32 | 13 |