London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1913
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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| 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. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | No. | Rate per 1000. | |
| 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 | 77 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Average for 10 years 1903-1912. | 1.0 | 0.02 | 59.1 | 1.14 | 128.4 | 2.43 | 23.2 | 0.43 | 0.4 | 0.01 | 51.2 | 0.96 | 2.3 | 0.04 | 0.1 | 0.00 | 1.0 | 0.02 | 0.4 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 267.1 | 5.06 |
| 1913 | 0 | 0.00 | 59 | 1.23 | 131 | 2.75 | 7 | 0.15 | 0 | 0.00 | 29 | 0.61 | 1 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 3 | 0.06 | 0 | 0.00 | 2 | 0.04 | 232 | 4.86 |
| London, 1913 | 3 | 0.00 | 7,668 | 1.70 | 17,568 | 3.89 | 762 | 0.17 | 14 | 0.00 | 4,159 | 0.92 | 354 | 0.08 | 5 | 0.00 | 641 | 0.14 | 93 | 0.02 | 147 | 0.03 | 31,414 | 6.96 |
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, nil;
There were also the following voluntary notifications of Phthisis:— 1911 Voluntary 3 1913 Private 58
1904 344 1908 152 „ Hospital 81 „ Hospitals 73
1905 208 1909 Voluntary 16 „ Poor Law 104 „ Poor Law 73
1906 191 „ Poor Law 326 188
1907 171 342 1912 Private 36 204
1910 Voluntary 16 „ Hospital 79
„ Poor Law 154 „ Poor Law 96
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