Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health
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TABLE IV.
Infectious Diseases in Holborn for the last Eleven Years.
NOTIFICATIONS | DEATHS | |||||||||||
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Decennial Average, 1914-1925 | Year 1926 | Decennial Average, 1918-1925 | Year 1926 | |||||||||
Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Kate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | |
Small-pox | 0.3 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | o.oo | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Diphtheria | 100 | 2.46 | 2.57 | 73 | 1.69 | 2.95 | 5 | 0.11 | 0.17 | 4 | 0.09 | 0.12 |
Erysipelas ... | 18 | 0.43 | 0.51 | 14 | 0.32 | 0.39 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Scarlet Fover | 91 | 2.19 | 3.17 | 84 | 1.94 | 2.68 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 1 | 0.02 | 0 02 |
Enteric Fever | 4 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 5 | 0.12 | 0.07 | 0.5 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 001 |
Cere'oro-spinal Fever | 1.0 | 0.03 | 0.06 | 2 | 0.05 | 0.02 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | o.oo | ... |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 0.03 | ... | 0 | 0.00 | 0.02 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | ... |
Whooping Coughf | 63 | 2.49 | ... | 96 | 2.25 | ... | 5 | 0.12 | 0.17 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.05 |
Measles | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 8 | 0.20 | 0.22 | 6 | 0.14 | 0.20 |
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary | 101 | 2.57 | ... | 66 | 1.53 | 1.62 | 59 | 1.50 | 1.23 | 26 | 0-60 | ... |
Ditto Non-Pulmonary | .5 | 0.38 | 26 | 0.60 | 0.47 | 8 | 0.19 | 0.19 | 9 | 0 21 | ... | |
Puerperal Fever* Ditto Pyrexia | 1 | 2.76 | 3.28 | 3 1 | 5.60 | 4.24 | 1 | 2.47 | ... | 2 | 3 74 | ... |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum* | 9 | 14.38 | 9.08 | 6 | 11.21 | 8-97 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Diarrhoea (under 2 years)*J | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 8 | 12.5 | 13. 57 | 12 | 22.43 | 11.8 |
* Rates per 1,000 births. †Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914. ‡ Not Notifiable. (.) Average for 6 years.