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St Pancras 1959

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

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Notification of Infectious Diseases since 1929

Populat ion204,400204,400195,600194,000190,900187,540185,300183,900181,900179,400167,300133,200103,770105,900108,640105,780111,400129,410136,700140,200141,330141,300139,100139,600138,400136,400134,500133,100132,000130.800128,700
Acute Influenza and Influenzal Pneumonia1929193019311932193319341935193619371938193919401941194219431944194519461947194819491950195119521953195419551956195719581959
2082479681115544467939312038264434136123978711294121104103635969150151149
Acute Primary Pneumonia25017019317821130015118215016616886103897989
Acute Poliomyelitis21147242852132353367662672736547912417
Meningococcal infection471213845261312372914510897666763553383
Diphtheria or Membranous Croup37456833430136345644048761437415784118101995810494413711812118412-
entery3114130515784631021954315615592246166441608416117117591126156137
Encephalitis Lethargica452--1---------2-----(e)----112563
Enteric or Typhoid Fever1671385671110767123215521-53_326222-
Erysipelas110120961171211569281648651504356725660533846373124252618131112148
poisoning--(a)1628221022658417215389721241401930809963129119118
Diphtharia121132951221651--1247111_2115613231-
Measles59134764302865437363812029756382337852856161492108279810251115902136111461057199311851371398161882710181505595
Opthalmia Neonatorum36324574423323312622231619211261033231919167297369731
Puerperal Fever231924302014249147658861619656(d)_---------
Puerperal Pyrexia7152384645271923303734282329322734473534151551124100815327596452
Scabies-----~---(c)5469318876993001386548455245362942505166
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever66865943551765370535443436433325310013617340818424624412413218119011414518286557210310961
Small-pox8717545----.----------1----------
hus----------.-----2-----1--------
Whooping cough--"-----(b)113526453424804395751835114843633204323992573851081131742754256

NOTES:- (a) Food poisoning notifiable from 12th July, 1932.
(b) Whooping cough notifiable and German measles ceased to be notifiable from 1st October, 1938.
(c) Scabies notifiable from 1st August, 1943.
(d) Puerperal fever ceased to be notifiable from October, 1948.
(e) Superseded by acute Encephalitis, as from 1st January, 1950.