Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report on the public health of Finsbury for the year 1927
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CASES OF DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1927.
Notifiable Disease | Number of cases notified | Total cases notified in each locality | Total cases removed to Hospital | |||||||||
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At all | At Ages—Years | Clerkenwell | St. Lukes | St. Sepulchre | ||||||||
Under 1 year | 1 and under 5 year | 5 and under 15 year | 15 and under 25 years | under 45 years | 45 and under 35 years | 65 and upwards | ||||||
Diphtheria (including Mem. Croup) | 208 | 4 | 71 | 99 | 23 | 10 | 1 | – | 159 | 46 | 3 | 204 |
Scarlet Fever | 242 | 3 | 70 | 147 | 18 | 3 | 1 | – | 161 | 80 | 1 | 243 |
Puerperal Fever | 6 | – | – | – | 2 | 4 | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | 5 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 16 | – | – | – | 7 | 8 | – | – | 9 | 6 | – | 4 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 111 | 31 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 23 | 8 | – | 7 |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 154 | – | 2 | 2 | 42 | 70 | 32 | 6 | 85 | 68 | 1 | – |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 36 | 1 | 7 | 111 | 7 | 8 | 2 | – | 25 | 11 | – | – |
Acute Primary Pneumonia | 62 | – | 7 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 18 | 14 | 56 | 7 | – | 31 |
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 24 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 8 | – | 8 |
Erysipelas | 44 | – | – | 4 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 4 | 35 | 9 | – | 7 |
Encephalitis Lethargica | 5 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | 3 | 2 | – | 3 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – |
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – |
Measles and German Measles | 435 | 32 | 286 | 116 | 1 | – | – | – | 301 | 134 | – | 185 |
Zymotic Enteritis | 5 | 3 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | – | – |
Totals | 1,270 | 76 | 451 | 391 | 120 | 125 | 70 | 28 | 881 | 384 | 5 | 694 |