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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 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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Notifications
The following tables show (1) the number of oases
of infectious disease notified during the year 1948,
with comparative figures for the previous seven
years; (2)the number of notifications divided into
age groups; and (3) the number of cases notified in
each ward of the borough.
TABLE 1
| Notifiable disease. | Number of cases notified. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 1947 | 1946 | 1945 | 1944 | 1943 | 1942 | 1941 | |
| Scarlet Fever. | 94 | 98 | 195 | 136 | 74 | 216 | 108 | 91 |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup). | 12 | 23 | 37 | 19 | 29 | 54 | 78 | 86 |
| Enteric Fever. | 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 16 |
| Puerperal Fever. ø | 3 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia. | 25 | 9 | 8 | 12 | 23 | 25 | 7 | 11 |
| Acute primary pheumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia. | 142 | 103 | 111 | 81 | 91 | 133 | 21 | 65 |
| Dysentery. | 145 | 21 | 49 | 142 | 43 | 73 | 68 | 25 |
| Erysipelas. | 24 | 34 | 37 | 33 | 16 | 37 | 30 | 43 |
| Cerebrospinal meningitis. | 4 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 22 |
| Malaria. | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis. | 9 | 27 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Encephalitis lethargica. | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 258 | 259 | 210 | 188 | 211 | 202 | 203 | |
| Measles. | 868 | 852 | 264 | 868 | 102 | 624 | 365 | 366 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | 7 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 3 |
| Enteritis. + | 64 | 102 | 69 | 100 | 71 | 69 | 96 | 48 |
| Food Poisoning. | 11 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 2 |
| Acute Rheumatismx(up to 30th November) | 7 | 11 | 15 | 32 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 2 |
| Scabies / | 141 | 239 | 463 | 460 | 363 | 252 | - | |
| Whooping Cough | 264 | 274 | 209 | 62 | 189 | 102 | 146 | 176 |
ø Only Puerperal Pyrexia notifiable in London now. Section 50,
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1948.
+ Notifiable only in children under the age of 5 years.
x Notifiable only in children under the age of 16 years.
Kensington (Acute Rheumatism) Regulations now rescinded.
/ Notifiable as from 1st August, 1943.
Note:
Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table.