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Holborn 1926

Report for the year 1926 of the Medical Officer of Health

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The total number of notifications relating to Holborn residents received duiing
the year was +16 in comparison with 415 in the year 1925.
Attention has had again especially to be called to the non-notification of whooping
cough, primary pneumonia and ophthalmia neonatorum. During last year a special
reference card with complete list of notifiable diseases was sent to all doctors practising
iu the Borough.

The 189 notifications so received were as follows: —

Diphtheria76
Scarlet Fever46
Whooping Cough2
Pneumonia2
Measles3
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis1
Acute Poliomyelitis5
Tuberculosis54
189

Smallpox.
No case of smallpox was notified in the Borough during the year; five cases
of the disease were notified in London.
Information of 46 passengers or staff arriving on vessels on which smallpox
had occurred during the voyage or which came from infected" ports was received
and, where practicable, the necessary visits for keeping such contacts under
observation were made.
In 43 of the cases the addresses given in this Borough were at hotels or
boarding houses.
In 13 cases the addresses or the names given could not be traced.
In 11 other cases although the travellers had visited the hotel mentioned,
they had gone prior to the Inspector's visit, usually leaving no address ; in two cases,
however, new addresses were furnished and the information sent on.
In the remaining cases the travellers were seen and found to be in good health.
lhe following table kindly supplied by the Vaccination Officer of the Holborn
Union on 2nd March, 1927, gives information respecting vaccination in the Borough
of Holborn: —