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Chelsea 1932
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1932
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TABLE No. 36
Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year.
| Cases notified in Chelsea. | Removed to various Hospitals. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At allAges. | Under 1Year. | Under1-5 Years. | 5-15Years. | 15-25 Years. | 25-45 Years. | 45-65 Years. | 65 and upwards | ||
| Small-pox | |||||||||
| Chicken-pox | 73 | 6 | 33 | 27 | 4 | 3 | — | — | 27 |
| Cholera | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — * |
| Diphtheria | 110 | 3 | 45 | 35 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 109 |
| Erysipelas | 36 | 2 | — | 2 | 4 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 22 |
| Scarlet Fever | 176 | — | 71 | 84 | 15 | 5 | 1 | — | 162 |
| Typhus Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Enteric Fever | 7 | — | — | 4 | — | 2 | — | 1 | 6 |
| Puerperal Fever | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 10 | — | — | — | 6 | 4 | — | — | 10 |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | _ | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
| Poliomyelitis | |||||||||
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | _ | — | _ | 1 | _ | — | _ | 1 |
| Polio-encephalitis | |||||||||
| Malaria | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | |||||||||
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 95 | 5 | 38 | 11 | 3 | 26 | 7 | 5 | 64 |
| Acute Influenzal Pnemonia | 26 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 19 |
| Total | 543 | 24 | 192 | 165 | 55 | 59 | 33 | 15 | 425 |
| Tuberculosis :—- | |||||||||
| Pulmonary | 95 | — | 1 | 10 | 14 | 38 | 27 | 5 | |
| Non-Pulmonary | 20 | — | 2 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | — | |
| Totals (Tuberculosis) | 115 | — | 3 | 17 | 22 | 40 | 28 | 5 | |
| Totals | 658 | 24 | 195 | 182 | 77 | 99 | 61 | 20 | |
No cases of Small-pox, Cholera, Typhus Fever, Poliomyelitis, Polio
encephalitis, Continued Fever, Dysentery, Relapsing Fever, Plague,
Anthrax, Glanders or Hydrophobia were notified during the year.
DIPHTHERIA.
Notifications.—During the year 110 cases of diphtheria were notified,
as compared with 79 in the previous year. The incidence of the disease
during the past two years is shown in Table No. 37.
Deaths.—Two deaths from the disease occurred during the year.