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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1912.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | Total Cases Removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages.—Years. | St. Charles. | Golborne. | Norland. | Pembridge. | Holland. | Earl's Court. | Queen's Gate. | Redcliffe. | Brompton. | ||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||||||
| Small-Pox | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cholera | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plague | ||||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous croup) | 180 | 2 | 48 | 75 | 23 | 27 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 30 | 26 | 30 | 19 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 7 | 151 |
| Erysipelas | 116 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 21 | 48 | 18 | 17 | 33 | 21 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 43 |
| Scarlet fever | 297 | 2 | 92 | 154 | 31 | 18 | 47 | 77 | 35 | 35 | 39 | 24 | 10 | 27 | 3 | 272 | ||
| Typhus fever | ||||||||||||||||||
| Enteric fever | 15 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 11 | |||
| Continued fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Puerperal fever | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 858 | 1 | 17 | 157 | 145 | 371 | 149 | 18 | 132 | 276 | 180 | 113 | 34 | 34 | 25 | 34 | 30 | 262 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 22 | 22 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | |||||||||
| Totals | 1499 | 28 | 166 | 394 | 219 | 452 | 202 | 38 | 234 | 428 | 269 | 192 | 106 | 72 | 62 | 88 | 48 | 755 |
Isolation Hospital or Hospitals, Sanatoria, &c— One male and one female bed have been retained
for consumptive patients by the Council in the Maitland Sanatorium, with the option of other beds when
available.