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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1922
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922
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Whooping Cough.
Visits were paid to 132 persons suffering from whooping cough; two of these
were not resident in the Borough. The 130 cases occurred in 90 families. In
62 families one case occurred; 19 families had two cases, seven had three, and in
two familiies four suffered
One hundred and ten cases were notified by doctors, some of which were
previously discovered by information received from schools and by observation of
the Health Visitors; 19 others were discovered in this way, and one parent
voluntarily notified a second case in the family.
Ninety-six were children under five, 32 were over five, and two were adults.
| 23 ,, ,, 1 contact. |
| 14 ,, ,,2 contacts. |
| 16 ,, ,, 3 ,, |
| 11 „ „ 4 „ |
| 8 „ „ 5 |
| 10 „ „ 6 |
| 2 ,, ,, 7 ,, |
| 4 ,, „ 8 ,, |
| 2 „ ,, 9 ,, |
| 1 „ „ 11 ,, |
| 1 „ „ 13 ,, |
| 3 ,, ,, 14 ,, |
| 1 „ „ 15 ,, |
| 2 „ „ 17 ,, |
| 38 cases occurred in flats in blocks |
| 86 ,. ,, large tenement houses. |
| 6 ,. ,, small houses. |
Twenty-five children were removed to hospital (18 to M.A.B. Hospital, and
seven to Holborn Poor Law Infirmary). One adult was removed to a private
nursing home.
The admission to M A.B. Hospitals of patients suffering with this disease is
in accordance with the Metropolitan Asylums (Whooping Cough) Order, 1911.
This Order is similar to that providing for the admission of cases of measles.
Epidemic Diarrhœa.
This disease is notifiable in only a few districts in London, and is not notifiable
in Holborn.