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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 accompanying tables (inset) are shown the number of notifications of
the notifiable infectious diseases received in each week of the year, and also the
corresponding weekly numbers of deaths from these and certain other diseases.

Table: In the next table the number of notifications are set out for the past ten years.

In the next table the number of notifications are set out for the past ten years.

Diseases.19031904190519061907190819091910191119121913
Small-pox283---------
Scarlet Fever647840987791851957774681445598568
Diphtheria489332278271337292312259416550440
Membranous Croup674484333——
Typhus Fever-—-—-------
Enteric Fever83135729654605061662941
Fever, Simple and Continued——1—1—————1
Relapsing Fever-----------
Puerperal Fever591010481514162010
Erysipelas222251228231188156160186201190210
Cholera—------1———
Plague-----------
Chicken-pox (part of year)16407............198....
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis........55610735
Polio-Myelitis................239
Ophthalmia Neonatorum................261823
Totals14961984158014031448148213201215138014111308