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Kensington 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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THE PREVENTION OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
DISEASE.
Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in Kensington:—
Acute encephalitis lethargica. Influenzal pneumonia.
Acute polio-encephalitis. Malaria (not induced).
Acute polio-myelitis. Membranous croup.
Acute primary pneumonia. Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Acute rheumatism. Plague.
Anthrax. Puerperal fever.
Cerebro-spinal fever. Puerperal pyrexia.
Cholera. Relapsing fever.
Continued fever. Scarlatina or scarlet fever.
Diphtheria. Smallpox.
Dysentery. Tuberculosis.
Erysipelas. Typhoid or enteric fever.
Glanders. Typhus fever.
Hydrophobia. Zymotic enteritis.
| Year. | Small-pox. | Scarlet fever. | Diph-theria. | Enteric fever. | Ery-sipelas. | Ophthal-mia neo-natorum. | Puer-peral fever. | Puer-peral pyrexia. | Pneu-monia. | Malaria. | Encepha-litis le-thargica. | P.m'itis & polio-ence-phalitis. | ‡ Acute rheum-atism. | Cerebro spinal mening-itis. | Dysent-ery. | * Enter-itis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 | 4 | 411 | 329 | 32 | 68 | 11 | 8 | 24 | 221 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 99 | 3 | 3 | 80 | 1,304 |
| 1931 | 2 | 385 | 222 | 16 | 61 | 13 | 8 | 61 | 253 | 1 | 1 | - | 46 | 7 | 17 | 41 | 1,134 |
| 1932 | 1 | 478 | 415 | 14 | 81 | 16 | 8 | 31 | 233 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 50 | 10 | 25 | 83 | 1,452 |
| 1933 | — | 617 | 295 | 11 | 97 | 6 | 10 | 49 | 208 | 1 | — | 1 | 62 | 5 | 6 | 106 | 1,474 |
| 1934 | — | 549 | 360 | 7 | 80 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 177 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 56 | 4 | 5 | 52 | 1,331 |
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table.
‡ Acute rheumatism in children under 16 years of age became notifiable in Kensington on 1st October, 1927.
It is also notifiable in Paddington and Holborn.
* Zymotic enteritis in children under 5 years of age became notifiable in Kensington on 1st July, 1924. The
other London boroughs in which this disease is notifiable are Fulham, Finsbury, Poplar, Southwark, Deptford,
Greenwich, Woolwich and Paddington.
| Four Weeks ending | Smallpox. | Scarlet fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric fever. | Erysipelas. | Ophthalmia neonatorum. | Puerperal fever. | Puerperal pyrexia. | Pneumonia. | Malaria. | Acute rheumatism. | Cerebro spinal meiiingitis. | Dysentery. | Enteritis. | Polio myelitis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 27 | - | 50 | 25 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | 31 | - | 9 | - | - | 2 | - | 121 |
| February 24 | - | 41 | 13 | — | 6 | 1 | - | — | 34 | — | 9 | 2 | _ | _ | _ | 106 |
| March 24 | - | 38 | 22 | - | 6 | 1 | 1 | i | 28 | - | 7 | - | - | 2 | - | 106 |
| April 21 | - | 54 | 20 | — | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 20 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 109 |
| May 19 | - | 41 | 28 | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | 2 | 10 | - | 8 | - | - | 1 | — | 98 |
| June 16 | - | 40 | 41 | — | 4 | 2 | - | 2 | 4 | - | 2 | — | - | 13 | - | 108 |
| July 14 | — | 45 | 20 | 1 | 3 | — | - | 1 | 3 | - | 4 | - | - | 3 | - | 80 |
| August 11 | - | 42 | 23 | — | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | — | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | - | 89 |
| September 8 | - | 33 | 6 | 1 | 3 | — | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | — | — | 10 | 1 | 58 |
| October 6 | - | 39 | 38 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | - | 4 | — | 1 | 6 | — | 115 |
| November 3 | - | 54 | 38 | 1 | 6 | — | - | — | 11 | - | 5 | — | 2 | 4 | 1 | 122 |
| December 1 | - | 42 | 36 | 1 | 10 | 1 | - | 7 | 12 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | 113 |
| " 29 | - | 30 | 50 | 1 | 6 | - | - | - | 10 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 3 | — | 104 |
| Totals | - | 549 | 360 | 7 | 80 | 10 | 4 | 20 | 177 | 2 | 56 | 4 | 5 | 52 | 2 | 1,329 |
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table.