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St Pancras 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Return showing the number of Persons successfully vaccinated and re-vaccinated at the cost of the rates by the Medical Officers of Institutions and the Public Vaccinators during the year ended 30th September, 1933:—
| Name of Institution or Vaccination District. | Name of the Medical Officer or Public Vaccinator. | Nos. of Successful Primary Vaccinations of Persons. | No. of Successful Re-vaccinations, i.e., Successful Vaccination of Persons who had been Successfully Vaccinated at some previous time. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under one year of age. | One year and upwards. | Total. | |||
| Ward 1 | Dr. N. J. Goodchild. | 156 | 10 | 166 | 2 |
| „ 2 | „ F. L. Pelly | 136 | 31 | 167 | 4 |
| Wards 3 and 4 | „ J. Wigg | 290 | 10 | 300 | 4 |
| ,, 5, 6, and 7 | „ A. E. Tait | 315 | 35 | 350 | 5 |
| Ward 8 | ,, C. H. A. Alderton | 141 | 6 | 147 | 5 |
| Highgate Hospital | ,, C. Thackray | 1 | 1 | 2 | - |
| St. Pancras Hospital | „ W. Feldman | 8 | — | 8 | - |
| Totals | 1047 | 93 | 1140 | 20 | |
SCARLET FEVER.
The number of cases notified was 653, as compared with 517 cases during the previous
year. It was subsequently ascertained that 33 cases had been incorrectly diagnosed. The actual
number of cases was therefore 620. Four deaths occurred; this equals a case mortality of 0.6
per hundred cases.
Return Cases.—This term is applied to cases of Scarlet Fever which occur in a house
within 28 days of the return from hospital of a previous case. There were 20 such cases
during the year. In tracing the clinical histories it was found that in four houses
the original case had definitely developed a nasal or ear discharge shortly after leaving
hospital. Such discharges are known to be highly infectious. Several other primary cases
were reported to have had colds. In 7 cases there was no illness of any kind in the persons
who were just back from hospital, but as the second cases fell within the above definition
they are included.
Multiple cases in one house—that is, several cases occurring more or less together—are
not as frequent as one might expect. In 26 families there were two such cases, in 10
families three multiple cases in each home, and in three families four cases in each house.
There was one epidemic in an orphanage and five cases were reported.
DIPHTHERIA.
The number of cases notified was 363, as compared with 301 cases during the previous
year. It was subsequently reported by the hospital authorities that 64 cases had been incorrectly
diagnosed, the actual number of cases was therefore 299. This equals an attack rate of 1.6
per 1,000 of population. Thirteen deaths occurred, giving a case mortality of 4.3 per cent.