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City of London 1919

Report of the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London for the year 1919

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Table: forwarded under Sections 55 and 56 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and information as to the removal of patients to hospitals, infirmaries, etc.:—

forwarded under Sections 55 and 56 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and information as to the removal of patients to hospitals, infirmaries, etc.:—

Name of Disease.Number of i Certificates Received.Treated at Home.Removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals.Removed to the London Fever Hospital.Treated at other Hospitals and Infirmaries.Duplicate Certificates Received.Diagnosis subsequently found to be incorrect.Net number of cases.
Small-pox................................
Diphtheria2311811....221
Scarlet Fever17212111....16
Enteric Fever1............1........1
Puerperal Fever................................
Erysipelas21........1........2
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis................................
Acute Polio-myelitis1............1........1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum................................
Measles1812....42........18
Rubella1716....1............17
Malaria contracted abroad1712........5........17
Pneumonia74........3........7
Totals103483071512100
Chicken-pox1313........................
Totals116613071512113

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It will be seen from the foregoing that during the year, excluding chicken-pox,
103 Certificates were received, including one duplicate and two in which the
diagnosis was subsequently found to be incorrect.
The total number of notifiable infectious diseases, excluding tuberculosis,
measles, rubella, malaria, pneumonia and chicken-pox, was 41, as compared with
42 last year; and, as stated, the number of cases of scarlet fever reported was the
same as the previous year.

Table: The following is a Return of infectious diseases notified in the City of London, exclusive of tuberculosis, measles, rubella, malaria, pneumonia and chicken-pox, with the percentages of such cases removed to hospitals for treatment or nursed at home during 1919 compared with the figures for the previous five years:—

The following is a Return of infectious diseases notified in the City of London, exclusive of tuberculosis, measles, rubella, malaria, pneumonia and chicken-pox, with the percentages of such cases removed to hospitals for treatment or nursed at home during 1919 compared with the figures for the previous five years:—

Year.Number of cases reported.Per cent. of cases reported.
Removed to Hospital.Treated at home.
191412893.86.2
191511294.65.4
19167094.35.7
19175194.15.9
19184288.111.9
Average for the five years80.693.07.0
19194190.29.8