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Holborn 1909
Report for the year 1909 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE III.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1909.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified is whole District. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At AgesYears. | St. Giles and Bloomsbury. | Holborn. | St. Giles and Bloomsbury. | 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 | - | 17 | 19 | 6 | 5 | - | 15 | 32 | 13 | 32 |
| Erysipelas | 41 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 26 | 7 | 21 | 20 | 9 | 10 |
| Scarlet Fever | 98 | 1 | 29 | 52 | 9 | 7 | - | 45 | 53 | 44 | 53 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | 16 | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | - | 6 | 10 | 5 | 10 |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continued Fever | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cerehro Spinal Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 207 | 3 | 60 | 77 | 22 | 48 | 7 | 91 | 116 | 74 | 106 |
Note.The Isolation Hospitals are those of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and the London Fever
Hospital. A few cases are treated at General Hospitals and Infirmaries.
There were also 332 notifications of Phthisis (Consumption), 116 belonging to St. Giles
and Bloomsbury, and 216 to the Holborn Division,
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