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Holborn 1920

Report for the year 1920 of the Medical Officer of Health

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TABLE V. NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE BOROUGH DURING 1920 AND DURING THE PRECEDING TEN YEARS. (Excluding Naval and Military Cases)

Disease.1910191119121913191419151916191719181919Annual Average1920
Small-pox00000000100.10
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup4585885963679969798874146
Erysipelas423748292228221510252822
Scarlet Fever681201131311731546629235493125
Typhus Fever000000000000
Enteric Fever2510127156922296
Continued Fever000000000110
Puerperal Fever020142200011
Cerebro-spinal Fever1010010360220
Acute Polio-myelitis0020030100.73
Ophthalmia Neonatorum5536612457616
Tuberculosis Pulmonary17018721016911516218513715276156111
Do. Non-Pulmonary352036331211182412
Total35i446477436418471434274284273395442

Chicken Pox was notifiable during the period in the above table as follows:—
1911 22nd March to 21st June - during which period 101 notifications were received
1915 17th March to 30th June - „ „ „ 27
1918 27th March to 30th June - „ „ „ 33

Measles and German Measles were notifiable from the 1st January, 1916, to the 31st December, 1919, during which period the following notifications of civil cases were received:—

MeaslesGerman Measles
191616390
1917496145
191814839
191913645

Whooping Cough was made notifiable in Holborn for 5 years from the 1st April, 1914, and was continued for a further 5 years from 1st October, 1919. Notifications have been received as follows:—

191477191715
191592191831
19162119193
192015