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St Pancras 1919
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1919
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OTHER NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Puerperal fever, ophthalmia neonatorum and measles (as well as whooping
cough) are dealt with on pages 76, 77 and 78.
No cases of typhus, cholera, plague, or human anthrax, glanders or hydrophobia
were reported in St. Pancras in 1919.
As usual, persons who had been in contact with smallpox and other
dangerous diseases (mostly on shipboard) were reported and kept under
observation, with negative results in all cases.
INFLUENZA.
The tremendous epidemic of influenza involved St. Pancras with the rest of
London in 1318, and was reported on in the annual report for that year. It
continued to a less extent in 1919, but was practically over by the middle of
the year. 260 deaths were certified during 1919 as due to Influenza.
In the table on the next page the deaths from influenza, heart diseases,
bronchitis, pneumonia and pulmonary tuberculosis will be found for each
week in 1918, 1919, and the first half of 1920.
The two inserted graphic charts may also be consulted.
DIARRHŒA AND ENTERITIS.
68 deaths from diarrhoea and enteritis were registered during 1919, equal
to a death-rate of 0.30 per 1,000 population.
Of these, 55 were in children under five years of age, and 47 in babies
under one.
Reference is made on page 79 to infantile diarrhœa.
SYPHILIS.
In the following table are given the age and sex distribution of deaths certified during 1919 as due to (a) declared syphilis, (b) locomotor ataxy and general paralysis of the insane, which are believed by most experts to be late manifestations of the disease, and
| 0-1 | 1-5 | 5—15 | 15—25 | 25—35 | 35—45 | 45—55 | 55—65 | 65—75 | 75—85 | 85 up. | Total Males. | 0-1 | 1-5 | 5-15 | 15—25 | 25 -35 | 35-45 | 45—55 | 55-65 | 65—75 | 75—S5 | 85 up. | Total Females. | Total Persons. | |
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