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Chelsea 1928
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1928
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TABLE No. 27. Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year.
| Cases notified in Chelsea. | Removed to various Hospitals. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | Under 1 Year. | 1-5 Years. | 5-15 Years. | 15-25 Years. | 25-45 Years. | 45-65 Years | 65 and upwards. | ||
| Small-pox | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Cholera | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diphtheria | 155 | 6 | 49 | 63 | 26 | 11 | – | – | 154 |
| Erysipelas | 34 | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | 10 | 13 | 7 | 24 |
| Scarlet Fever | 118 | – | 20 | 60 | 27 | 10 | 1 | – | 109 |
| Typhus Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Enteric Fever | 13 | – | – | – | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 10 |
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | – | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | 3 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 11 | – | – | – | 2 | 9 | – | – | 7 |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 11 | 11 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Poliomyelitis | 3 | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 |
| Polio-encephalitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Malaria | 7 | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 3 | – | – |
| Dysentery | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 103 | 12 | 27 | 14 | 7 | 16 | 22 | 5 | 75 |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 6 | – | – | – | – | 5 | – | 1 | – |
| Total | 467 | 30 | 101 | 137 | 69 | 73 | 43 | 14 | 393 |
| Tuberculosis:- | 81 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 33 | 23 | 3 | – |
| Pulmonary Non-Pulmonary | 20 | – | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | – | – |
| Totals (Tuberculosis) | 101 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 20 | 37 | 26 | 3 | – |
| Totals | 568 | 31 | 107 | 145 | 89 | 110 | 69 | 17 | – |
No cases of Cholera. Typhus Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Polio-encephalitis,
Continued Fever, Relapsing Fever, Plague, Anthrax, Glanders
or Hydrophobia were notified during the year.
DIPHTHERIA.
Notifications.—During the year 155 cases of diphtheria were notified,
as compared with 127 in the previous year. The incidence of the
disease during the past two years is shown in Table No. 28.
Deaths.—Four deaths from the disease occurred, all in the M.A.B.
Hospitals. Two of the cases were under five years of age.