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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 1936
[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.
Acute polio-encephalitis.
Acute polio-myelitis.
Acute primary pneumonia.
Acute rheumatism.
Anthrax.
Cerebro-spinal fever.
Cholera.
Continued fever.
Diphtheria.
Dysentery.
Erysipelas.
Glanders.
Hydrophobia.
Influenzal pneumonia.
Malaria (not induced).
Membranous croup.
Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Plague.
Puerperal fever.
Puerperal pyrexia.
Relapsing fever.
Scarlatina or scarlet fever.
Smallpox.
Tuberculosis.
Typhoid or enteric fever.
Typhus fever.
Zymotic enteritis.
| Year. | Smallpox. | Scarlet fever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric fever. | Erysipelas. | Ophthalmia neonatorum. | Puerperal fever. | Puerperal pyrexia. | Pneumonia. | Malaria. | Encephalitis lethargica. | P.m'itis & polioencephalitis. | ‡ Acute rheumatism. | Cerebro spinal meningitis. | Dysentery. | *Enteritis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 1,330 |
| 1935 | — | 304 | 338 | 7 | 63 | 11 | 7 | 30 | 136 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 28 | 2 | 6 | 39 | 999 |
| 1936 | — | 289 | 142 | 8 | 66 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 177 | 2 | — | 3 | 48 | 6 | 7 | 78 | 872 |
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. | Scarletfever. | Diphtheria. | Enteric fever. | Erysipelas. | Ophthalmia neonatorum. | Puerperal fever. | Puerperal pyrexia. | Pneumonia. | Malaria. | Encepha-litis lethargica. | Polio myelitis. | Acute rheumatism. | Cerebro spinal meningitis. | Dysent-cry. | Enteritis. | Total. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 25 | - | 15 | 14 | 1 | 9 | - | 3 | 1 | 16 | - | - | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 70 |
| February 22 | - | 29 | 12 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 13 | — | - | - | 2 | - | - | 9 | 69 |
| March 21 | - | 23 | 10 | - | 7 | 2 | — | 1 | 17 | — | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 63 |
| April 18 | - | 23 | 12 | 2 | 4 | — | 1 | 2 | 7 | — | - | - | 4 | 2 | - | 2 | 69 |
| May 16 | - | 29 | 17 | — | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | — | - | 1 | 2 | — | - | 3 | 75 |
| June 13 | - | 37 | 12 | — | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | - | - | - | 4 | — | 1 | 9 | 80 |
| July 11 | - | 31 | 13 | — | 3 | 3 | — | 3 | 8 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 70 |
| August 8 | - | 15 | 11 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 9 | — | - | - | 3 | - | - | 6 | 50 |
| September 5 | - | 14 | 5 | - | 4 | - | 2 | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 6 | 39 |
| October 3 | - | 12 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | - | 3 | 7 | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | 12 | 53 |
| 31 | - | 11 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 1 | - | 1 | 7 | - | 1 | 6 | 64 |
| November 28 | - | 29 | 8 | — | 7 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 24 | — | - | - | 11 | - | 3 | 11 | 99 |
| January 2 | - | 21 | 11 | — | 5 | — | — | 1 | 35 | — | - | - | 2 | 2 | — | 4 | 81 |
| Totals | — | 289 | 142 | 8 | 66 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 177 | 2 | — | 3 | 48 | 6 | 7 | 78 | 872 |
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table.