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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 1926

Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health

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Table: TABLE III.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1926.

TABLE III.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1926.

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 Agea—Tears,
St. Giles and Bloomsbury.Holborn.
At till Ages.Under 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4545 to 6565 and wards.
Small-pox.................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)73223311331...225172
Erysipelas141...12442868
Scarlet Fever84...1840197......345084
Enteric Fever5......122......5...5
Puerperal Fever3............3......213
do. Pyrexia1............1......1...1
Cerebro-spinal Fever2...11............112
Ophthalmia Neonatorum66..................423
Dysentery.................................
Malaria.................................
Pneumonia—Primary29...922376141516
do. Influenzal10.........1711464
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary66......31628181303634
do. Non-Pulmonary2614955291713
Whooping Cough9694938............177925
Acute Poliomyelitis.................................
Encephalitis Lethargica1............1.........11
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