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City of London 1923

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

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Table: NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.—In the following tables will be found particulars of certificates relating to cases of infectious disease, and information as to the removal of patients to hospitals, infirmaries, amp;.

NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.—In the following tables will be found particulars of certificates relating to cases of infectious disease, and information as to the removal of patients to hospitals, infirmaries, amp;.

NAME OF DISEASE.Number of Certificates received.Treated at Home.Removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.Removed to the London Fever Hospital.Treated at other Hospitals and Infirmaries.Duplicate Certificates received.Diagnosis subsequently found to be incorrect.Net number of Cases
Small-pox................................
Diphtheria18....17............l17
Scarlet Fever41....372....2....39
Enteric Fever (including Para-typhoid)3....2....l........3
Puerperal Fever................................
Erysipelas531....l........5
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.................................
Acute Polio-myelitis...............................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1*............l........1*
Measles................................
Rubella..............................
Malaria contracted abroad................................
Acute Primary Pneumonia6............6........6
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.................................
Totals74357292l71
Chicken-pox55....................5
Totals79857292l76
* Patient recovered and suffered no impairment of vision.

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The following is a return of infectious diseases which have occurred in the
City of London, exclusive of Tuberculosis, Measles, Rubella, Malaria, Pneumonia,
Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Chicken-pox, with the percentages of such cases
removed to hospitals for treatment or nursed at home during 1923 compared
with the figures for the previous five years:—
Number of cases reported Per cent, of cases reported.
Year. Removed to Hospital Treated at home.
1918 42 88.1 11.9
1919 41 90.2 98
1920 74 91.9 8.1
1921 131 95 4.6
1922 77 94.8 5 2
Average for the five years 73 92.1 7.9
1923 64 95.3 4.7