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Cases that cannot be satisfactorily isolated and nursed at home can now be
removed to hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, on the recommendation
of the Medical Officer of Health, provided accommodation is available.
WHOOPING COUGH
Whooping cough was returned as the cause of 3 deaths during the year, in
comparison with 16 in the preceding year. Two of the deaths were in St. Giles
and Bloomsbury and 1 in the Holborn District. All were children under 2 years
of age. The death rate was 0 06 per 1,000 in comparison with the decennial
average of 0.27.
diarrhœa and enteritis.
The number of deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis was 39. Ten belonged to
St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 29 to the Holborn District. 33 were children
under 2 years of age, 26 being under 1 year of age.
The Registrar-General has introduced a change in the method of classification
of diarrhœal deaths. He now takes the deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis under
two years of age, instead of deaths at all ages from cholera, dysentery and
diarrhoea. In the Borough there were 33 deaths, or a rate of only 0 67 per 1,000,
in comparison with 1.18 for London with 5,313 deaths under two years of age.
29 of our deaths and 4,310 London deaths occurred during the exceptionally hot
summer quarter.
PHTHISIS.
For details see pages 22-24.
INFLUENZA.
During the year there was only 1 death registered as due to influenza.
ALCOHOLISM.
Only 16 deaths were assigned to alcoholism or cirrhosis of liver, 7 in
St. Giles and Bloomsbury. and 9 in the Holborn District. These represent only
a portion of the deaths really caused by alcoholism, as they are frequently
registered under the headings of other secondary causes.
CANCER.
Fifty-four deaths were registered as due to cancer or malignant disease,
29 belonging to St. Giles and Bloomsbury and 25 to the Holborn District.