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Holborn 1922

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922

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TABLE IV.Infectious Diseases in Holborn for the last Eleven Years.

NOTIFICATIONSDEATHS
Decennial Average, 1912-1921Year 1922Decennial Average, 1911-1921Year 1922
NumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London Rate
Small-pox0.10.000.0010.020.0000.000.0000.000.00
Diphtheria922.262.241082.523.3860.130.1640.090.25
Erysipelas240.570.73140.32...10.02...10.02...
Scarlet Fever1662.473.631473.433.8110.020.0420.050 47
Enteric Fever70.160.1240.090.0510.020 0200.020.01
Cerebro-Spinal Fever20.060.0710-02...........10.020.01
Acute Poliomyelitis10.02...10.02............00.000.00
"YVhooping Coughf380.93...1102.56...60.140.1960.140.25
Measles ‡..................110.280 2570.150.35
Tuberculosis—-Pulmonary1413.42...681.58...761.841.40431.001.06
Ditto Non-Pulmonary220.48...140.32...90.22...80 180.23
Puerperal Fever*11.453.1300.003.2811.45...11.501.28
Ophthalmia Neonatorum*710.20...1015.069.18..................
Diarrhoea (under 2 years)*..................914.11.9169.007.1

* Rates per 1,000 births.
t Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) aince 1914.
Average given for 7 years.
† Not Notifiable.