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St Pancras 1931

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

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The notifications of, and deaths from, the notifiable infectious diseases other than Tuberculosis are classified in the following table according to the Wards in which they occurred:-

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.Notifications.Deaths.
Ward.Whole Borough.Ward.Whole Borough
1234567812345678
1.Small-pox224
2.Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever7643752778342478435112
3.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup5734443742311573†33444222519
4.Enteric or Typhoid Fever1215221311
5.Puerperal Fever257251224112
6.,, Pyrexia63431147381‡1
7.Erysipelas161281512116169641128
8.Ccrebro-spinal Meningitis2123311321133111
9.Anterior Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis1111
10.Ophthalmia Neonatorum32118663645
11.Encephalitis Lethargica1121113
12.Acute Primary Pneumonia322224272926428†193
13.Acutc Influenzal Pneumonia11821111642679
14.Malaria11
15.Dysentery11
16.Measles7669963773191445†430112
17.German Measles486419391568
Totals28621030117625914179281177668611811950

* For Pneumonia deaths, see Table 2 page ico.
† Including 3 cases—"homeless." (1 each of Diphtheria, Acute Primary Pneumonia, and Measles.)
‡ Cause of Death classified by Registrar-General to " Influenza."