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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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The notifications of, and deaths from, the notifiable diseases other than Tuberculosis are classified in the following table according to the Wards in which they occurred:—
| Diseases. | Notifications. | Deaths. | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward. | No Address. | Whole Borough. | Ward. | No Address. | Whole brough. | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 8 | |||||
| 1. Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2. Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever | 58 | 44 | 80 | 36 | 96 | 30 | 30 | 8 | 1 | 434 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 6 |
| 3. Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 50 | 49 | 101 | 45 | 82 | 63 | 28 | 69 | - | 487 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | 3 |
| 4. Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 5 Puerperal Fever | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| 6. „ Pyrexia | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | 23 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 7. Erysipelas | 15 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 8 | - | 81 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 8. Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| 0. Anterior Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| 10. Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | †31 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 11. Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 12. Acute Influenza and Influenzal Pneumonia | 9 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | - | 46 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | †25 |
| [3. Acute Primary Pneumonia | 39 | 11 | 26 | 21 | 26 | 22 | 13 | 23 | 1 | 182 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | †9 |
| 14. Malaria | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 17 | 4 | - | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| 15. Dysentery | 6 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 3 | - | 57 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 |
| 16. Measles | 536 | 406 | 567 | 296 | 450 | 315 | 64 | 341 | - | 2975 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 17 |
| 17. German Measles | 6 | 6 | 14 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 26 | - | 78 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 18. Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 17 | 4 | - | 22 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 737 | 553 | 836 | 428 | 697 | 460 | 201 | 548 | 2 | 4462 | 5 | 7 | 9 | '4 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 82 |
For Pneumonia deaths, see Table on pages 31 and 32.
t Excluding one case which came to notice after death.