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The total number of notifications relating to Holborn residents received during
the year was 415 in comparison with 446 in the year 1924.
Attention has had again especially to be called to the non-notification of whooping
cough, primary pneumonia and ophthalmia neonatorum. A list of the notifiable diseases
is from time to time supplied to all doctors practising in the Borough.
In addition to the above there were received 243 notifications respecting
patients not residing in Holborn, many being in-patients of hospitals in the
Borough. All these were forwarded to the Medical Officers of Health of the
districts concerned. The 243 notifications so received were as follows:—
Diphtheria 73
Scarlet Fever 52
Whooping Cough 4
Typhoid Fever 1
Paratyphoid Fever 4
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 1
Encephalitis Lethargica 4
Acute Poliomyelitis 4
Erysipelas 5
Tuberculosis 95
243
Smallpox.
No case of smallpox was notified in the Borough during the year; 13 cases
of the disease were notified in London.
Information of 28 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 22 of the cases the addresses given in this Borough were at hotels or
boarding houses.
In five cases the addresses or the names given could not be traced.
In five cases although the travellers had visited the hotel mentioned, they
had gone, leaving no address, prior to the Inspector's visit.
In one case the passenger contact had been removed to hospital and died,
death being due to heart disease. There was no evidence or suggestion that this
patient had suffered from smallpox, the body was seen and contained no indication
of any rash.
In addition to contacts notified by the Port Medical Officers of Health,
I received information from the London County Council and two Medical Officers
of Health in London respecting eight residents in Holborn who were contacts of
cases of smallpox occurring in other Metropolitan areas. All these contacts were
seen and kept under observation during the incubation period, and re-vaccinated
where this had not been performed within the last five years. None of the
contacts developed the disease.