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Kensington 1930

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]

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TABLE II.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year, 1930.

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-pox4............211...21............1...4
Cholera......................................................
Dysentery3.....................2......1...............1
Plague......................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous croup)3294114183532041617049263127272513322
Erysipelas6864114132371014868756446
Scarlet fever411511321848216...82938041303020287384
Typhus fever......................................................
Enteric fever32...161474...25113557322
Continued fever......................................................
Puerperal fever8.........26......2...181.........15
Puerperal pyrexia24.........618......98241...13118
Encephalitislethargica2...............2...1.....................11
Cerebro-spinal meningitis3...1......2.........11...1............3
Polio-myelitis andPolio-encephalitis11.....................1.....................1
Pulmonarytuberculosis202182787727544353027171571611149
Other forms of tuberculosis58...41610199...12111274414325
Ophthalmia neonatorum1111..................124111...1...5
Primary pneumonia18515582920302310348981865453106
Influenzal pneumonia863433127481455211......16
Malaria3............3.........2............1...3
* Enteritis854248............172138441.........31
†Acute rheumatism99...1935.........188135752......147
Totals1564883465292622258628303392300141114987197481086

* Notifiable only in children under the age of 5 years
† „ „ „ „ „ 16 years.
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table.