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Holborn 1920
Report for the year 1920 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE VI. PROPORTION TO ESTIMATED POPULATION OF CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING 1920 AND DURING THE PRECEDING TEN YEARS.
| Disease. | Annual Rate per 1,000 Estimated Population to Middle of each Year. | Annual Average. | Rate per 1000 1920 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 1911 | 1912 | 1913 | 1914 | 1915 | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | |||
| Small-pox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 0.90 | 1.74 | 1.83 | 1.23 | 1.35 | 1.66 | 2.60 | 1.95 | 2.15 | 2.31 | 1.77 | 3.68 |
| Erysipelas | 0.84 | 0.76 | 1.00 | 0.61 | 0.47 | 0.70 | 0.58 | 0.42 | 0.27 | 0.66 | 0.63 | 0.55 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1.36 | 2.45 | 2.36 | 2.75 | 3.71 | 3.82 | 1.73 | 0.82 | 0.63 | 1.41 | 2.10 | 3.15 |
| Typhus Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Enteric Fever | 0.50 | 0.20 | 0.25 | 0.15 | 0.32 | 0.15 | 0.23 | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.19 | 0.15 |
| Continued Fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Puerperal Fever | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.09 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.03 |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.24 | 0.07 | 0.17 | 0.00 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 0.00 |
| Acute Polio-myelitis | — | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.07 | 0.00 | 0.03 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.08 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | _ | 0.10 | 0.10 | 0.06 | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.32 | 0.11 | 0.13 | 0.18 | 0.14 | 0.40 |
| TuberculosisPulmonary | 3.39 | 3.81 | 4.37 | 3.60 | 2.45 | 4.00 | 4.84 | 3.88 | 4.13 | 1.99 | 3.65 | 2.80 |
| Do. Non-Pulmonary | — | — | — | 0.74 | 0.43 | 0.89 | 0.86 | 0.34 | 0.30 | 0.47 | 0.58 | 0.30 |
| Total | 7.01 | 9.10 | 9.93 | 9.20 | 8.95 | 11.66 | 0.35 | 7.80 | 7.72 | 7.14 | 9.16 | 11.14 |