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Chelsea 1929
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1929
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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 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chicken-pox | 15 | — | 9 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | 5 |
| Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Diphtheria | 148 | 4 | 49 | 63 | 20 | 9 | 3 | — | 146 |
| Erysipelas | 36 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 24 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 149 | 3 | 31 | 78 | 29 | 7 | 1 | — | 140 |
| Typhus Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Enteric Fever | 3 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | ||
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Puerperal pyrexia | 5 | — | — | 3 | — | — | 4 | ||
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Poliomvelitis | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Polio-encephalitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Malaria | 4 | — | — | — | 1 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 1 | — | — | —. | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 149 | 29 | 12 | 12 | 33 | 33 | 19 | 118 | |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 47 | 1 | — | 1 | 5 | 23 | 10 | 7 | 38 |
| Total | 567 | 25 | 120 | 162 | 76 | 90 | 61 | 33 | 485 |
| Tuberculosis :— | |||||||||
| Pulmonary . . | 95 | — | — | 1 | 27 | 40 | 25 | ||
| Non -Pulmonary | — | 4 | 5 | — | — | — | |||
| Totals (Tuberculosis) | 106 | — | 4 | 6 | 27 | 42 | 25 | ||
| Totals | 673 | 25 | 124 | 168 | 103 « | 132 | 86 | 35 | |
No cases of Small-pox, Cholera, Typhus Fever, Encephalitis Lethargica,
Polio-encephalitis, Continued Fever, Relapsing Fever, Plague, Anthrax,
Glanders or Hydrophobia were notified during the year.
DIPHTHERIA.
Notifications.—During the year 148 cases of diphtheria were notified,
as compared with 155 in the previous year. The incidence of the disease
during the past two years is shown in Table No. 28.
Deaths.—Three deaths from the disease occurred, 2 in the M.A.B.
Hospitals and one in St. Luke's Hospital. Two of the cases were under
five years of age.