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 1925 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, 1915-1924 | Year 1925 | Decennial Average, 1915-1924 | Year 1925 | |||||||||
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 | 0.3 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Diphtheria | 9.9 | 2.45 | 2.50 | 76 | 1.75 | 2.72 | 5 | 0.13 | 0.18 | 2 | 0.05 | 0.11 |
Erysipelas | 1.9 | 0.47 | 0.63 | 13 | 0.30 | 0.42 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Scarlet Fever | 9.8 | 2.37 | 3.30 | 86 | 1.98 | 2.66 | ... | 0.02 | 0.04 | 1 | 0.02 | 0. 02 |
Enteric Fever | 4 | 0.10 | 0.09 | 6 | 0.13 | 0.09 | 0.5 | 0.01 | 0 .02 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
Cerebro-spinal Fever | 2.5 | 0.06 | 0.07 | ... | 0.00 | 0.02 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | ... |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 0.02 | ... | 2 | 0.05 | 0.01 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | ... |
Whooping Cough† | 6.0 | 2.26 | ... | 113 | 2.61 | ... | 5 | 0.13 | 0.18 | 9 | 0.21 | 0.19 |
Measles | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 9 | 0.24 | 0.22 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.08 |
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary | 111 | 2.83 | ... | 63 | 1.45 | 1.65 | 61 | 1.56 | 1.30 | 45 | 1.04 | 0.91 |
Ditto Non-Pulmonary | 18 | 0.49 | ... | 11 | 0.25 | 0.46 | 8 | 0.20 | ... | 9 | 0.21 | 0.16 |
Puerperal Fever* | 1.1 | 2.52 | 3.16 | 2 | 3.79 | 3.83 | 1 | 1.53 | ... | 1 | 1.89 | 1.29 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum* | 8 | 13.70 | ... | 9 | 17,08 | 8.58 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Diarrhoea (under 2 years)"‡ | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 8 | 12.9 | 15.0 | 6 | 11.38 | 10.6 |
* Rates per 1,000 births.
† Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914.
‡ Not Notifiable.