London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Holborn 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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| NOTIFICATIONS | DEATHS | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decennial Average, 1917-1926 | Year 1927 | Decennial Average, 1917-1926 | Year 1927 | |||||||||
| Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rat. | |
| Small-pox | 0.3 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Diphtheria | 97 | 2.37 | 2.65 | 54 | 1.28 | 2.69 | 4 | 0.00 | 0.17 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.09 |
| Erysipelas | 17 | 0.41 | 0.18 | 21 | 0.50 | 0.43 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Scarlet Fever | 93 | 2.21 | 3.23 | 59 | 1.39 | 2.91 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.03 | ... | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| Enteric Fever | 4 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 4 | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.5 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1.4 | 0.03 | 0.05 | ... | 0.00 | 0.02 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | ... |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 0.02 | ... | 0 | 0.00 | 0.02 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | ... |
| Whooping Cough† | 70 | 2.45 | ... | 82 | 1.94 | ... | 5 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 5 | 0.12 | 0.12 |
| Measles‡ | ... | .... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 8 | 0.20 | 0.22 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.04 |
| Tuberculosis—Pulmonary | 89 | 2.24 | ... | 91 | 2.15 | 1.59 | 54 | 1.36 | ... | 51 | 1.21 | ... |
| Ditto Non-Pulmonary | 15 | 0.35 | ... | 20 | 0.47 | 0.42 | 8 | 0.19 | ... | 4 | 0.09 | ... |
| Puerperal Fever* | 1 | 3.24 | 3.23 | 3 | 21.78 | 3.57 | 1 | 2.10 | ... | 2 | 3.96 | ... |
| Ditto Pyrexia | 8 | |||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum* | 8 | 13.85 | 9.06 | 9 | 17.82 | 11.11 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Diarrhoea (under 2 years)*‡ | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 8 | 13.20 | 13.13 | 5 | 9.90 | 7.5 |
| * Rates per 1,000 births. | † Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914. | ‡ Not Notifiable. | ||||||||||