[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough] page 70

Kensington 1953

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

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certain countries require that visitors should be vaccinated
or inoculated against specified diseases.
International certificates have been prescribed for
smallpox, yellow fever and cholera. Wnen completed by the
practitioner, the certificate must be authenticated by the
Medical Officer of Health for the area in which the certifying
doctor resides or practises.
During the year over two thousand of these certificates
were authenticated in Kensington,
Notifications
The following tables show (1) the number of cases of
infectious disease notified during the year 1953, 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: TABLE 1

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TABLE 1

Notifiable disease	Number of cases notified
	Number of cases notified								1953	1952	1951	1950	1949	1948	1947	1946
	Scarlet fever Diphtheria (including	78	108	68	100	114	94	98	195
Membranous Croup)	Scarlet fever Diphtheria (including	78	108	68	100	114	94	98	195	2	-	1	2	2	12	23	37
Enteric fever	5	2	7	12	7	4	4	6
Puerperal fever ø	-	-	—	-	-	-	3	4
Puerperal pyrexia Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal	65	83	22	18	33	25	9	8
									pneumonia	93	71	149	69	121	142	103	111
									Dysentery	131	31	81	18	33	145	21	49
Erysipelas	11	11	13	17	15	24	34	37
Meningococcal infection	6	4	8	5	8	4	7	10
Malaria	5	1	2	2	—	2	4	8
Acute poliomyelitis Paralytic	9	17	8	7	47	9	27	1
Acute poliomyelitis Paralytic	9	17	8	7	47	9	27	1	Non-paralytic	5	4	4	6
Acute encephalitis	-	3	1	-	1	-	2	-
Tuberculosis (all forms)	256	251	238	278	266	258	259	210
Measles	740	839	1314	696	740	868	852	264
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	7	2	2	12	5	7	4	4
Enteritis +	27	30	25	63	88	64	102	69
Food poisoning	79	20	18	23	33	11	7	7
Scabies	42	26	34	72	106	141	239	463
Whooping Cough	485	228	484	316	304	264	274	209
TOTALS:	1846	1731	2479	1716	1923	2074	2072	1692

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ø Puerperal Pyrexia only notifiable in London
since 1948.
+ Notifiable only in children under the age of 5.
NOTE: Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded
from above table.

London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Kensington 1953

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Table: TABLE 1

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