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The total number of notifications relating to Holborn residents received during
the year was 400 in comparison with 416 in the year 1926.
Attention has had again especially to be called to the non-notification of whooping
cough, primary pneumonia and ophthalmia neonatorum. A special reference card
with complete list of notifiable diseases is supplied to all doctors practising in the
Borough.
In addition to the above there were received 218 notifications respecting patients not
residing in Holborn, many being in-patients of hospitals in the Borough. All these were
forwarded to the Medical Officers of Health of the districts concerned. The 218 notifications
so received were as follows:—
Diphtheria 89
Scarlet Fever 25
Whooping Cough 3
Pneumonia 3
Erysipelas 2
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 7
Infantile Paralysis 1
Tuberculosis 84
Enteric Fever 4
218
Smallpox.
No case of smallpox was notified in the Borough during the year; five cases
of the disease were notified in London.
Information of 12 passengers or staff arriving on vessels on which smallpox
had occurred during the voyage or which came from infected ports was received
and, where practicable, the necessary visits for keeping such contacts under
observation were made.
In three of the cases the addresses given in this Borough were at hotels or
boarding houses.
In two cases the addresses or the names given could not be traced.
In the remaining cases the travellers were seen and found to be in good health.
In six cases re-vaccination had been carried out on board the ships and in two
other cases the passengers had been re-vaccinated within the previous two years
In April, 1927, several cases of smallpox occurred in a London suburb.
Information was received that contacts of these cases visited two large drapery
establishments in a Metropolitan Borough. One at least of such contacts
subsequently developed smallpox and it was stated, was unwell at the time of the