London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kensington 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
TABLE II. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1929.
| Notifiable Disease | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | Total Cases Removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages.—Years. | St. Charles. | Golborne. | Norland. | Pembridge. | Holland. | Earl's Court. | Queen's Gate. | Redcliffe. | Brompton. | |||||||||
| At all Ages. | Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | |||||||||||
| Small-pox | 5 | ... | ... | 1 | 3 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 1 | ... | 2 | ... | 5 |
| Cholera | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | .... | ... | .... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Dysetitery | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | .... | ... | ... |
| Plague | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | .... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | .... | ... |
| Diphtheria (including | 326 | 10 | 75 | 145 | 47 | 82 | 12 | 5 | 58 | 76 | 43 | 39 | 19 | 19 | 27 | 82 | 18 | 290 |
| Membranous croup) Erysipelas | 75 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 27 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 89 |
| Scarlet fever | 526 | 2 | 112 | 286 | 68 | 58 | 10 | 91 | 166 | 70 | 55 | 85 | 26 | 22 | 50 | 11 | 472 | |
| Typhus fever | ... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Enteric fever | 17 | .... | 1 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 8 | .... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | 3 | 5 | 1 | 6 | ... | 11 |
| Continued fever | ... | .... | .... | ... | .... | ... | ... | .... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | .... | ... | ... | |
| Puerperal fever | 18 | .... | ... | ... | 7 | 6 | ... | .... | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ... | ... | 1 | 11 |
| Puerperal pyrexiaEncephalitis | 41 | .... | ... | ... | 15 | 26 | .... | .... | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | ... | 5 | 8 | 2 | ... | 36 |
| Lethargica | 5 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 4 | ... | .... | ... | 2 | 1 | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | .... | 5 |
| Cerebro-spinal menin-gitis | 2 | 1 | .... | 1 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 1 | 1 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 2 |
| Polio-myelitis and Polio-encephalitis | 1 | .... | 1 | ... | .... | ..... | ... | .... | 1 | ....... | ....... | ... | ... | ... | ... | .... | ... | 1 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 188 | .... | 2 | 5 | 51 | 89 | 89 | 2 | 80 | 85 | 28 | 25 | 19 | 18 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 181 |
| Other forms of Tuber-culosis | 53 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 18 | 10 | 8 | ... | 9 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 27 |
| Ophthalmia Neona-torum | 22 | 22 | ... | ... | ... | ... | .... | ... | 2 | 5 | 9 | 2 | ... | 1 | ....... | 2 | 1 | 14 |
| Primary Pneumonia | 114 | 1 | 17 | 28 | 10 | 81 | 27 | 5 | 18 | 88 | 22 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 75 |
| Influenzal Pneumonia | 146 | 5 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 87 | 84 | 81 | 21 | 51 | 18 | 19 | 11 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 65 |
| Malaiia | 2 | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | ... | ... | 1 | .... | ....... | ||||
| *Enteritis | 114 | 76 | 88 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 17 | 40 | 42 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | .... | 50 |
| †Acute Rheumatism | 81 | ... | ... | 77 | 4 | .... | ... | ... | 24 | 22 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ... | 5 | ... | 50 |
| Totals | 1788 | 121 | 281 | 565 | 289 | 818 | 158 | 56 | 292 | 468 | 298 | 182 | 112 | 102 | 76 | 157 | 51 | 1864 |
* Notifiable only in children under the age of 5 years,
t •• »• ti it years.
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are not excluded from the above table.