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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 1930

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

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Table: The following table shows the number of cases of infectious disease notifiedin the various wards in 1930.

The following table shows the number of cases of infectious disease notifiedin the various wards in 1930.

Notifiable Disease.Total cases notified in each ward.
St. Charles.Golborne.Norland.Pembridge.Holland.Earl's Court.Queen's GateRedcliffe.Brompton.
Small-pox...21............1...
Cholera........................
Dysentery2......1............
Plague...........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous croup)617049263127272513
Erysipelas10148687564
Scarlet fever82938041303020287
Typhus fever...........................
Enteric fever251135573
Continued fever...........................
Puerperal fever2...131.........1
Puerperal pyrexia98241•••131
Encephalitis Lethargica1...• • •• • •............1
Cerebro-spinal meningitis...11...1............
Polio-myelitis and Polio-encephalitis...1.....................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis44353027171571611
Other forms of Tuberculosis121112744143
Ophthalmia Neonatorum124111...1...
Primary Pneumonia348981865453
Influenzal Pneumonia81455211......
Malaria......2............1...
*Enteritis172138441.........
†Acute Rheumatism183135752......1
Totals30389230014111498719748

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* Notifiable only in children under the age of 5 years.
† ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, 16 years.
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table.
Smallpox.—During the year 1930, there was a large increase in the number of smallpox cases
notified in London. Five thousand one hundred and sixty-seven cases occurred in the Metropolitan
area as compared with 1,116 in the previous year, and 12 proved fatal. Twenty-eight of the 29
Metropolitan Boroughs were affected, the only borough to remain free from smallpox being
Chelsea.
Notwithstanding the large increase in the number of cases of this disease in London, there
were four cases only in Kensington as compared with 5 in the previous year. These 4 occurred in
private houses and were of a mild type similar to that which was prevalent in London during the
year. Three of the cases occurred in North Kensington and one in South Kensington. Details
of the cases are as follow: