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Holborn 1927

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

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TABLE IV. Infectious Diseases in Holborn for the last Eleven Years.

NOTIFICATIONSDEATHS
Decennial Average, 1917-1926Year 1927Decennial Average, 1917-1926Year 1927
NumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London Rat.
Small-pox0.30.010.0000.000.0000.000.0000.000.00
Diphtheria972.372.65541.282.6940.000.1710.020.09
Erysipelas170.410.18210.500.43..................
Scarlet Fever932.213.23591.392.9110.030.03...0.000.01
Enteric Fever40.090.0840.090.070.50.010.0100.000.01
Cerebro-spinal Fever1.40.030.05...0.000.02.........00.00...
Acute Poliomyelitis10.02...00.000.02.........00.00...
Whooping Cough†702.45...821.94...50.110.1650.120.12
Measles‡...................80.200.2200.000.04
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary892.24...912.151.59541.36...511.21...
Ditto Non-Pulmonary150.35...200.470.4280.19...40.09...
Puerperal Fever*13.243.23321.783.5712.10...23.96...
Ditto Pyrexia8
Ophthalmia Neonatorum*813.859.06917.8211.11..................
Diarrhoea (under 2 years)*‡..................813.2013.1359.907.5
* Rates per 1,000 births.† Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914.‡ Not Notifiable.