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Southwark 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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ACUTE PRIMARY AND INFLUENZAL PNEUMONIA.
Two hundred and eighteen cases were notified during the year, of
which 78 were removed to hospital.
There were 44 deaths of these notified cases.
ANTHRAX.
Two cases of this disease were notified and both occurred in persons
employed in brush-making, the disease being contracted from contaminated
imported Chinese bristles.
CANCER.
The number of deaths during the last five years together with a
table showing the site of disease for the period 1933 will be found
hereunder:—
1929 254 1932 263
1930 250 1933 288
1931 290
The number of deaths from Measles during the last five years will be found hereunder :—
| 1929 | 16 | 1932 | 53 |
| 1930 | 77 | 1933 | 6 |
| 1931 | 3 |
PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS.
A record is kept under the Blind Persons Act, 1920, of all cases
under 5 years of age reported from the Welfare Centres.
These are referred to the Metropolitan Society for the Blind.
Deaths of infants under two years of age during the last five yea were as follows:—
| 1929 | 36 | 1932 | 34 |
| 1930 | 19 | 1933 | 32 |
| 1931 | 16 |