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Harrow 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.
PREVALENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. (Other than Tuberculosis.)
| Disease. | Under 1 yr. | 1/4 | 5/9 | 10/14 | 15/1 | 9 20/24 | 25/34 | 35/44 | 45/54 | 55/64 | 65 & over | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 95 | 226 | 96 | 27 | 15 | 26 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 501 |
| Diphtheria | - | 22 | 33 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 85 |
| Pneumonia | 4 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 19 | 15 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 93 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 38 |
| Puerperal Fever | — | - | - | - | - | — | — | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 18 | 1 | - | - | - | 22 |
| Enteric Fever | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| Dysentery | - | 2 | - | 1 | — | - | — | - | — | - | - | 3 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute Polioencephalitis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pemphigus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Disease. | Cases Notified | Admitted to Harrow Isolation Hospital | Admitted to other Isolation Hospitals | Admitted to other Hospital | Deaths Registered | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 501 | 332 | 56 | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Diphtheria | 85 | 52 | 26 | 3 | 2 | |||||||
| Pneumonia | 93 | - | - | - | 64 | |||||||
| Erysipelas | 38 | - | 10 | 15 | 2 | |||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | - | 1 | - | 5 | |||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 22 | - | 5 | - | ||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 5 | - | 1 | 3 | - | |||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | - | 1 | 1 | - | |||||||
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 2 | - | - | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Dysentery | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | |||||||
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| Acute Polio-encephalitis | 1 | — | — | — | — | |||||||
CONTROL.
Notification.
The operation of the adoptive Infectious Diseases (Notification)
Act, 1889, was made general by the 1899 Act which called for the
notification of the following diseases:—Smallpox, cholera, diphtheria,
membranous croup, erysipelas, the disease known as
scarlatina or scarlet fever, and the fevers known by any of the
following names:—Typhus, typhoid, enteric, relapsing, continued
and puerperal.