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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1934
[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
| 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 | 126 | 7 | 133 | 2 |
| ,, 2 | ,, F. L. Pelly | 141 | 35 | 176 | 5 |
| Wards 3 and 4 | 303 | 34 | 337 | 8 | |
| ,, 5, 6, and 7 | „ A. E. Tait | 249 | 34 | 283 | 7 |
| Ward 8 | „ C. H. A. Alderton | 143 | 10 | 153 | 1 |
| Highgate Hospital | ,, C. Thackray | 2 | |||
| St. Pancras Hospital | „ W. Feldman | 4 | 4 | ||
| Totals | 966 | 120 | 1086 | 25 | |
SCARLET FEVER.
The number of cases notified was 705, as compared with 653 cases during the previous
year. It was subsequently ascertained that 43 cases were not regarded as cases of this disease.
The actual number of cases was therefore 662. One death occurred; this equals a case
mortality of 0'2 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 24 such cases
during the year. In tracing the clinical histories it was found that in five 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 these 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 21 families there were two such cases, in four
families three multiple cases in each home. There was one epidemic in an orphanage and
fifteen cases were reported. There were also two epidemics in other institutions, one with
seven cases, and one with eight cases.
DIPHTHERIA.
The number of cases notified was 456, as compared with 363 cases during the previous
year. It was subsequently reported by the hospital authorities that 67 cases were not regarded
as cases of this disease. The actual number of cases was therefore 389. This equals an
attack rate of 2.1 per 1,000 of population. Seventeen deaths occurred, giving a case
mortality of 4.4 per cent.