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St Pancras 1913

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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in the last three years in the table is distinctly lower than in the earlier years
with corresponding earth temperatures, and it seems reasonable to ascribe this
to a betterment in the conditions under which the infant population lives.
The table does not show any connection between infant mortality from
bronchitis and pneumonia and cold weather, but the data are insufficient to
exclude such a connection.
Table 5 (page 105) shows the infantile mortality rates for 1913 of England
and Wales, the County of London, the several Metropolitan Boroughs, and
the 30 large towns with a population exceeding 125,000.

Table: INFECTIOUS DISEASES.The number of cases of compulsorily infectious disease that have been notified during 1913 is shown in the following table, where they are also classified according to ages. The figures have not been corrected for subsequent revisions of diagnosis:—

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

The number of cases of compulsorily infectious disease that have been notified during 1913 is shown in the following table, where they are also classified according to ages. The figures have not been corrected for subsequent revisions of diagnosis:—

DISEASES.At all Ages.At Ages—Years.
Under 1.1 and under 5.5 andunder 10.10 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.
1. Variola or Small-pox................
2. Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever56841352231196423..
3. Diphtheria and Membranous Croup4409126181643525..
4. Typhus Fever................
5. Enteric or Typhoid Fever41..1111523..
6. Fever, Simple or Continued1..........1..
7. Relapsing Fever................
8. Puerperal Fever11........38..
9. Erysipelas2101210963212021
10. Cholera................
11. Plague................
12. Anthrax................
13. Glanders................
14. Hydrophobia................
15. Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis5..22..1....
l6. Polio-Myelitis91512......
17. Ophthalmia Neonatorum23221..........
Total under Public Health (London) Act, 1891, Sec. 5513084828041719215020021
Tuberculosis- Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912, Primary Notifications on Forms "A," "B," "C & D": Pulmonary928224543416761631
Do. other Forms230737704118507