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Chelsea 1931
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1931
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TABLE No. 41. Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year.
| Cases notified in Chelsea. | Removed to various Hospitals. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | Under 1Year. | 1-5 Years. | 5-15 Years. | 15-25 Years. | 25-45 Years. | 45-65 Years. | 65 and upwards. | ||
| Small-pox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chicken-pox | 79 | 2 | 42 | 29 | 6 | — | — | — | 28 |
| Cholera | — | — | —— | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Diphtheria | 79 | 2 | 22 | 35 | 12 | 7 | 1 | _ | 77 |
| Erysipelas | 22 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 13 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 94 | 4 | 29 | 35 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 92 | |
| Typhus Fever | — | — | — | — | — | —— | — | — | — |
| Enteric Fever | 2 | _ | 1 | 1 | _ | __ | _ | _ | 2 |
| puerperal Fever | |||||||||
| Puerperal pyrexia | 7 | - | — | — | — | 7 | — | — | 7 |
| Cerebrospinal Fever | 1 | _ | _ | _ | _ | 1 | — | _ | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 4 |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Enceplatics Lethargica | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| polio-encephalitis | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 106 | 7 | 43 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 79 |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 21 | — | 3 | 3 | — | 4 | 9 | 2 | 9 |
| Total | 418 | 23 | 142 | 113 | 47 | 47 | 35 | 11 | 313 |
| Tuberculosis :— Pulmonary | 97 | — | 1 | 2 | 28 | 39 | 20 | 7 | — |
| Non-Pulmonary | 18 | — | 3 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | — |
| Totals (Tubercu-losis) | 115 | — | 4 | 5 | 38 | 40 | 21 | 7 | — |
| Totals | 533 | 23 | 146 | 118 | 85 | 87 | 56 | 18 | — |
No cases of Small-pox, Cholera, Typhus Fever, Puerperal Fever,
Encephalitis Lethargica, Polio-encephalitis, Continued Fever, Malaria,
Dysentery, Relapsing Fever, Plague, Anthrax, Glanders or Hydrophobia
Were notified during the year.
diphtheria:
Notifications.—During the year 79 cases of diphtheria were notified,
3-s compared with 118 in the previous year. The incidence of the disease
during the past two years is shown in Table No. 4'2.
Deaths.—Two deaths from the disease occurred, 1 in an L.C.C.
Hospital and one in St. George's Hospital. One of the cases was under
five years of age.