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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1905
Report for the year 1905 of the Medical Officer of Health
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| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in whole District. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Bloomsbury and St. Giles. | Holborn. | Bloomsbury and St. Giles. | Holborn. | ||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||
| Small-pox | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — |
| Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 47 | 1 | 12 | 20 | 10 | 4 | — | 10 | 37 | 8 | 37 |
| Erysipelas | 35 | — | 2 | — | 4 | 26 | 3 | 20 | 15 | 9 | 2 |
| Scarlet Fever | 156 | 2 | 54 | 75 | 20 | 5 | — | 68 | 88 | 68 | 82 |
| Typhus Fever | — | — | — | — | - | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Enteric Fever | 21 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 6 | — | 14 | 7 | 14 | 7 |
| Relapsing Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Continued Fever | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 |
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Plague | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Totals | 263 | 4 | 70 | 98 | 45 | 43 | 3 | 114 | 149 | 101 | 129 |
Note.—The Isolation Hospitals are those of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
There were also 208 voluntary notifications of Phthisis (Consumption), 99 belonging to
St. Giles and Bloomsbury, and 109 to the Holborn Division.