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Holborn 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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NOTIFICATIONS 0F INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE BOROUGH DURING 1912, AND DURING THE PRECEDING TEN YEARS, AND RATES PER 1,000.
| Year. | Small-pox. | Diphtheria and Membranous Croup. | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Continued Fever. | Erysipelas. | Puerperal Fever. | Typhus Fever. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Cerebrospinal Fever | Acute Polio-myelitis. | Total. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No, | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | Mo. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | |
| 1902 | 217 | 3.73 | 113 | 1.94 | 202 | 3.47 | 39 | 0.67 | 0 | 0.00 | 85 | 1.46 | 6 | 0.10 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 662 | 11.37 |
| 1903 | 2 | 0.03 | 53 | 0.93 | 144 | 2.52 | 53 | 0.93 | 2 | 0.03 | 90 | 1.57 | 4 | 0.07 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 348 | 6.08 |
| 1904 | 6 | 0.11 | 46 | 0.82 | 99 | 1.76 | 41 | 0.73 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.37 | 7 | 0.12 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 276 | 4.91 | |
| 1905 | 1 | 0.02 | 47 | 0.85 | 156 | 2.82 | 21 | 0.38 | 1 | 0.02 | 35 | 0.63 | 2 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 263 | 4.76 |
| 1906 | 0 | 0.00 | 66 | 1.22 | 137 | 2.53 | 15 | 0.28 | 0 | 0.00 | 56 | 1.03 | 2 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 276 | 5.10 |
| 1907 | 0 | 0.00 | 64 | 1.21 | 156 | 2.94 | 14 | 0.26 | 0 | 0.00 | 40 | 0.75 | 1 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.02 | — | — | 2 | 0.03 | — | — | 278 | 5.24 |
| 1908 | 0 | 0.00 | 50 | 0.94 | 193 | 3.64 | 25 | 0.47 | 0 | 0.00 | 46 | 0.87 | 2 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | 316 | 5.96 |
| 1909 | 1 | 0.02 | 47 | 0.92 | 98 | 1.92 | 16 | 0.31 | 1 | 0.02 | 41 | 0.80 | 3 | 0.06 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | 207 | 4.06 |
| 1910 | 0 | 0.00 | 45 | 0.90 | 68 | 1.36 | 25 | 0.50 | 0 | 0.00 | 42 | 0.81 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | — | — | 1 | 0.02 | —- | — | 181 | 3.62 |
| 1911 | 0 | 0.00 | 85 | 1.74 | 120 | 2.45 | 10 | 0.20 | 0 | 0.00 | 37 | 0.76 | 2 | 0.04 | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 0.10 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 259 | 5.29 |
| Average for 10 years 1902-1911. | 22.7 | 0.39 | 61.6 | 1.14 | 137.3 | 2.54 | 25.9 | 0.47 | 0.4 | 0.01 | 54.9 | 1.01 | 2.9 | 0.05 | 0.1 | 0.00 | 0.5 | 0.01 | 0.3 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 306.6 | 5 64 |
| 1912 | 0 | 0.00 | 88 | 1.83 | 113 | 2.36 | 12 | 0.25 | 0 | 0.00 | 48 | 1.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 0.10 | 1 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 267 | 5.56 |
| Loudon,1912 | 6 | 0.00 | 7,106 | 1.57 | 11,321 | 2.50 | 705 | 0.16 | 7 | 0.00 | 4,100 | 0.91 | 380 | 0.09 | 3 | 0.00 | 701 | 0.16 | 105 | 0.02 | 132 | 0.03 | 24,567 | 5.44 |
Chicken-pox was notifiable from October 19th, 1901. to January 6th, 1903 inclusive, during which time 282 notifications were received, and from April 8th to
November 6th, 1904, inclusive, during which time 61 notifications were received; and in 1911, from 22nd March to 21st June, during which period 101
notifications were received.
Anthrax, nil: Glanders, nil; Hydrophobia. ml;
| There were also the following voluntary notifications of Phthisis: | 1911 voluntary | 3 | |||||
| 1904 | 344 | 1908 | 152 | „ Hospital | 81 | ||
| 1905 | 208 | 1909 Voluntary | IB | „ Poor Law | 104 | ||
| 1906 | 191 | Poor Law | 32 6 | 188 | |||
| 1907 | 171 | 342 | 1912 Private | 35 | |||
| 1910 Voluntary | 16 | ,, Hospital | 79 | ||||
| „ Poor Law | 154 | „ Poor Law | 96 | ||||
| 170 | 210 | ||||||