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Holborn 1928

[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, 1918-1927Year 1928Decennial Average, 1918-1927Year 1928
NumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London Rate
Small-pox0.30.010.0010.020.0700.000.0000.000.00
Diphtheria962.312.72571.452.7440.100.1720.050.09
Erysipelas170.420.45230.580.48......0.02......0.02
Scarlet Fever962.273.371112.823.4510.030.0400.000.02
Enteric Fever40.090.08100.250.130.50.010.0100.000.01
Cerebro-spinal Fever10.020.0310.020.02.........00.000.01
Acute Poliomyelitis10.02...00.000.01.........00.000.00
Whooping Cough†782.39...1042.64...50.110.1640.100.09
Measles‡..................50.110.1880.200.30
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary852.07...912.321.52511.241.09411.040.89
Ditto Non-Pulmonary160.37...140.360.4080.180.1760.150.14
Puerperal Fever*25.893.44321.354.0912.57...12.111.60
Ditto Pyrexia710.67
Ophthalmia Neonatorum*714.429.361021.3510.19..................
Diarrhœa (under 2 vears)*‡..................812.9511.98612.6210.32

* Rates per 1,000 births. † Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914. ‡ Not notifiable.