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Holborn 1923

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, for the year 1923

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TABLE IV.

Infectious Diseases in Holborn for the last Eleven Years.

NOTIFICATIONSDEATHS
Decennial Average, 1913-1922Year 1923Decennial Average, 1913-1922Year 1923
NumberRate per 1,000London HateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London Rate
Small-pox0.30.010.0000.000.0000.000.0000.000.00
Diphtheria942.322.42982.252.2850.130.1840.090.13
Erysipelas210.490.69140.32..................0.01
Scarlet Fever1092.583.761022.352.2210.020.0530.070.02
Enteric Fever60.140.1320.040.0710.020.0200.000.00
Cerebro-Spinal Fever20.060.0610.02............10.020.01
Acute Poliomyelitis10.02...20.04............00.000.00
Whooping Cough†541.40...932.14...20.050.2050.110.09
Measiest...............90.250.2530.070.08
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary1273.15...501.15...701.741.31451.030.93
Ditto Non-Pulmonary210.51...100.28...90.22...30.070.17
Puerperal Fever*11.663.1135.083.8911.66...11.681.32
Ophthalmia Neonatorum*811.61...610.128.32..................
Diarrhoea (under 2 years)*..................914.11.86813.4910.2

* Rates per 1,000 births. † Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914. Average given for 9 years. ‡ Not Notifiable.