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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 1921
Report for the year 1921 of the Medical Officer of Health
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Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1921.
| Notifiable Disease | Number of Cases Notified | Total Cases notified in each Locality (e.g. Parish or Ward) of the District. | Total Cases Removed to Hospitals | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages | At Ages—Years. | ||||||||||
| St. Giles and Bloomsbury. | Holborn. | ||||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | I5 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards | |||||
| Small-pox | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 167 | 2 | 44 | 76 | 27 | 16 | 2 | — | 40 | 127 | 164 |
| Erysipelas | 18 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 7 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 190 | 2 | 32 | 120 | 27 | 9 | — | — | 75 | 115 | 185 |
| Enteric Fever | - | — | — | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | 4 | 2 | 5 | |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | - | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | - | 1 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 2 | 1 | — | - | — | - | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | *8 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 3 | 3 |
| Dysentery | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | — | - | 1 | 1 |
| Malaria | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | - | — |
| Pneumonia—Primary | 42 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 26 | 15 |
| do. Influenzal | 2 | — | - | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | - | — |
| Tuberculosis Pulmonary | 96 | — | 3 | 4 | 21 | 43 | 23 | 2 | 48 | 48 | 41 |
| do. Non-Pulmonary | 21 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 12 | 11 |
| Whooping Cough | 129 | 21 | 68 | 38 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 51 | 78 | 7 |
| 685 | 36 | 155 | 253 | 91 | 94 | 48 | 8 | 263 | 422 | 443 | |
* Two of these were notified from the Public Health Department on discovery of notified cases.