Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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. | 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | Annual Average | 1920 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 |
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 45 | 85 | 88 | 59 | 63 | 67 | 99 | 69 | 79 | 88 | 74 | 146 |
Erysipelas | 42 | 37 | 48 | 29 | 22 | 28 | 22 | 15 | 10 | 25 | 28 | 22 |
Scarlet Fever | 68 | 120 | 113 | 131 | 173 | 154 | 66 | 29 | 23 | 54 | 93 | 125 |
Typhus Fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Enteric Fever | 25 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 15 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 6 |
Continued Fever | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Puerperal Fever | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Acute Polio-myelitis | — | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.7 | 3 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 16 |
Tuberculosis Pulmonary | 170 | 187 | 210 | 169 | 115 | 162 | 185 | 137 | 152 | 76 | 156 | 111 |
Do. Non-Pulmonary | — | — | — | 35 | 20 | 36 | 33 | 12 | 11 | 18 | 24 | 12 |
Total | 35i | 446 | 477 | 436 | 418 | 471 | 434 | 274 | 284 | 273 | 395 | 442 |
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:—
Measles | German Measles | ||
---|---|---|---|
1916 | 163 | 90 | |
1917 | 496 | 145 | |
1918 | 148 | 39 | |
1919 | 136 | 45 |
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:—
1914 | 77 | 1917 | 15 |
1915 | 92 | 1918 | 31 |
1916 | 21 | 1919 | 3 |
1920 | 15 |