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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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Infectious Diseases in Holborn for the last Eleven Years.
| NOTIFICATIONS. | DEATHS. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decennial Average, 1911-1920. | Year 1921. | Decennial Average, 1911-1920. | Year 1921. | |||||||||
| Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | |
| Small pox | 0.1 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | 84 | 2.04 | 2.04 | 167 | 3.84 | 3.65 | 5 | 0.13 | 0.15 | 4 | 0.09 | 0.25 |
| Erysipelas | 26 | 0.60 | 0.79 | 18 | 0.41 | 0.48 | 1 | 0.03 | — | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 99 | 2.28 | 3.15 | 190 | 4.37 | 7.32 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 3 | 0.06 | 0.06 |
| Enteric Fever | 7 | 0.16 | 0.13 | 6 | 0.14 | 0.07 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 2 | 0.05 | 0.06 | 2 | 0.05 | 0.02 | — | — | — | 1 | 0.02 | — |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 0.03 | — | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 | — | — | — | 0 | 0.00 | — |
| Whooping Cough† | 36 | 0.88 | — | 129 | 2.96 | — | 6 | 0.14 | 0.20 | 4 | 0.09 | 0.12 |
| Measles‡ | - | - | — | — | — | — | 13 | 0.32 | 0.36 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.05 |
| Tuberculosis—Pulmonary | 150 | 3.59 | 96 | 2.20 | — | 78 | 1.92 | 1.42 | 42 | 0.96 | 1.04 | |
| Ditto Non-Pulmonary | 22 | 0.54 | - | 21 | 0.48 | — | 12 | 0.28 | — | 6 | 0.14 | 0.19 |
| Puerperal Fever* | 1 | 1.59 | 3.04 | 1 | 1.54 | 3.53 | 1 | 1.59 | — | 1 | 1.54 | 1.43 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum* | 7 | 11.13 | — | 8 | 12.32 | 10.77 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diarrhoea (under 2 years)* | - | — | — | — | - | — | 12 | 16.4 | 21.7 | 8 | 12.3 | 21.3 |
† Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914. Average given for i years.
‡ Not Notifiable.
* Rates per 1,000 births.