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St Pancras 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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equal to a death-rate of 0.11 per 1,000 population, and 0.12 per 1000 civil
population, and case mortality of 6.30 per cent. of cases notified.
In the following table are set out the number of cases of diphtheria notified, the number of deaths, and the corresponding rates during the past ten years:—
| Year. | Number of Notifications. | Notification Rate per 1000 Population. | Number of Deaths. | Death Rate per 1000 population. | Percentage of Cases Removed. | Case-Mortality per cent. |
| 1905 | 282 | 1.19 | 26 | 0.11 | 91 | 9.22 |
| 1906 | 275 | 1.16 | 22 | 0.09 | 88 | 8.00 |
| 1907 | 345 | 1.46 | 28 | 0.12 | 92 | 8.12 |
| 1908 | 296 | 1.25 | 23 | 0.09 | 91 | 7.77 |
| 1909 | 315 | 1.33 | 28 | 0.12 | 93 | 8.89 |
| 1910 | 262 | 1.10 | 20 | 0.08 | 97 | 7.63 |
| 1911 | 419 | 1.77 | 37 | 0.15 | 94 | 8.83 |
| 1912 | 550 | 2.50 | 26 | 0.11 | 98 | 4.73 |
| 191.3 | 440 (391) | 1.98 (1.76) | 19 | 0.08 | 97 | 4.31 (486) |
| 1914 | 458 (426) | 2.10 (1.95) | 30 | 014 | 87 | 6.55 (7.04) |
| 1915 | 446 (311) | 2.04 (1.75) | 24 | 0.11 | 95 | 5.38 (6.30) |
| The figures in brackets are corrected for errors of diagnosis. The other figures art not corrected. | ||||||
The notification rate of diphtheria per 1,000 population for the County of
London was 2.11. Five Metropolitan Boroughs (exclusive of the City) had
notification rates greater than St. Pancras, and 21 less. The death-rate from
diphtheria per 1,000 population for the County of London was 0.16.
Other statistical facts in regard to diphtheria will be found on pages 20-22.
Of the notified cases of diphtheria 425 (or 95 per cent.) were removed to
hospital, as follows:—
To Metropolitan Asylums Board hospitals 402
To other hospitals 23
425
Return Cases.—In six houses cases of diphtheria occurred within 28 days
of the return from hospital to the same house of a former case of diphtheria.
The interval between date of return of first case and date of onset of illness
of second case were 1, 5, 12, 14 and 22 days respectively (no record in one
case). In one case the (?) infecting case had rhinitis, but" in the other 5 cases
there was no history of anything wrong with the (?) infecting case.
In two houses also cases of diphtheria occurred within 28 days of the return
from hospital to the same house of a case of scarlet fever. In one of these