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Willesden 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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MEASLES.—T ABLE NO. 24.
Shewing the number of cases coming under the notice of the Health Department each year since 1907. and the number of deaths occurring among these cases; the number of deaths occurring among unknown cases, and the probable number of these cases assuming the fatality rate to have been the same in
each class.
| Year. | Total No. of Cases known before death. | Cases unknown prior to death. | Percentage of all probable Cases coming to knowledge. | Total. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases. | Deaths. | Fatality Rate per cent. | Deaths. | Estimated No. of Cases. | |||
| 1907 | 1,442 | 25 | 1.75 | 20 | 1,153 | 55 | 2,595 |
| 1908 | 1,678 | 26 | 1.55 | 29 | 1,871 | 47 | 3,549 |
| 1909 | 1.445 | 17 | 1.17 | 24 | 2,040 | 41 | 3,485 |
| 1910 | 1,757 | 13 | 0.74 | 17 | 2,297 | 43 | 4,054 |
| 1911 | 1,845 | 26 | 1.40 | 25 | 1,774 | 51 | 3,619 |
| 1912 | 1,665 | 17 | 1.02 | 18 | 1,763 | 48 | 3,428 |
| 1913 | 1,656 | 21 | 1.26 | 48 | 3.785 | 30 | 5,441 |
| 1914 | 539 | 0 | 0.00 | 8 | *664 | *45 | 1,203 |
| 1915 | 1,947 | 20 | 1.03 | 54 | 5,257 | 27 | 7,204 |
| 1916 | 871 | 7 | .80 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 871 |
| 1917 | 2,979 | 36 | 1.21 | 12 | 993 | 75 | 3,972 |
| Totals | 17,824 | 208 | 1.17 | 255 | 21,597 | 45 | 39,421 |
TUBERCULOSIS.—T able N o . 25.
| Notifications received—Pulmonary | 609 |
| Other forms | 92 |
| New cases to which notifications refer—Pulmonary | 302 |
| Other forms | 64 |
713 of the total of 2,928 cases of Tuberculosis notified in
Willesden since 1909 when notification began were living' in
the area at the end of the year 1917.
DEATH RATES FROM CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES.—T able N o . 26.
| Scarlet Fever | 1 per 100,000 of the population. |
| Diphtheria | 12 ,, ,, ,, |
| Enteric Fever | 1 ,, ,, ,, |
| Measles | 28 ,, ,, ,, |
| Whooping Cough | 14 ,, ,, ,, |