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Kensington 1935
[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. | Smallpox. | Scarlet fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric fever. | Erysipelas. | Ophthalmia neonatorum | Puerperal fever. | Puerperal pyrexia. | Pneumonia. | Malaria. | Encephalitis lethargica. | P. m'itis 3c polioencephalitis. | JAcute rheumatism. | Cerebro spinal meningitis. | Dysentery. | •Enteritis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 2 | 385 | 222 | 16 | 61 | 13 | 8 | 61 | 253 | I | I | - | 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 |
| 1935 | — | 304 | 338 | 7 | 63 | 11 | 7 | 30 | 136 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 6 | 39 | 999 |
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table.
+ Acute rheumatism in children under 16 years of age became notifiable in Kensington in 1927. It is also
notifiable in Paddington and Holborn.
* Zymotic enteritis in children under 5 years of age became notifiable in Kensington in 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. | Encephalitis lethargica. | Acute rheumatism. | Cerebro spinal meningitis. | Dysentery. | Enteritis. | Polio myelitis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 26 | 25 | 46 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | - | 4 | - | - | 2 | I | 103 | ||
| February 23 | — | 22 | 28 | _ | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 1 | _ | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 87 | |
| March 23 | — | 24 | 37 | 4 | _ | 2 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 1 | _ | 88 | |||||
| April 20 | — | 26 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 20 | _ | 4 | _ | _ | 5 | _ | 99 | |
| May 18 | — | 17 | 27 | _ | 6 | _ | _ | 3 | 12 | _ | 1 | _ | 1 | 5 | _ | 72 | |
| June 15 | — | 18 | 20 | _ | 5 | _ | 1 | 1 | 8 | _ | _ | 2 | _ | 1 | 5 | _ | 61 |
| July 13 | — | 11 | 17 | — | 2 | — | - | 2 | 5 | - | 3 | _ | - | 10 | _ | 50 | |
| August 10 | _ | 16 | 20 | 2 | 6 | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 58 | |||||
| September 7 | — | 14 | 16 | - | 5 | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | __ | 53 |
| October 5 | — | 30 | 24 | 1 | 3 | 2 | _ | 3 | 8 | _ | 1 | - | _ | _ | 5 | - | 77 |
| November 2 | — | 32 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | _ | _ | 3 | _ | 79 |
| 30 | — | 41 | 23 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | — | 82 |
| December 28 | — | 28 | 20 | — | 11 | 1 | - | — | 23 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 90 |
| Totals | — | 304 | 338 | 7 | 63 | 11 | 7 | 30 | 136 | 5 | 2 | 28 | 2 | 6 | 59 | 1 | 999 |
| Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table. | |||||||||||||||||