Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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.
NOTIFICATIONS | DEATHS | |||||||||||
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Decennial Average, 1918-1927 | Year 1928 | Decennial Average, 1918-1927 | Year 1928 | |||||||||
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 Rate | |
Small-pox | 0.3 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.07 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Diphtheria | 96 | 2.31 | 2.72 | 57 | 1.45 | 2.74 | 4 | 0.10 | 0.17 | 2 | 0.05 | 0.09 |
Erysipelas | 17 | 0.42 | 0.45 | 23 | 0.58 | 0.48 | ... | ... | 0.02 | ... | ... | 0.02 |
Scarlet Fever | 96 | 2.27 | 3.37 | 111 | 2.82 | 3.45 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
Enteric Fever | 4 | 0.09 | 0.08 | 10 | 0.25 | 0.13 | 0.5 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.02 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 0.02 | ... | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Whooping Cough† | 78 | 2.39 | ... | 104 | 2.64 | ... | 5 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 4 | 0.10 | 0.09 |
Measles‡ | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 5 | 0.11 | 0.18 | 8 | 0.20 | 0.30 |
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary | 85 | 2.07 | ... | 91 | 2.32 | 1.52 | 51 | 1.24 | 1.09 | 41 | 1.04 | 0.89 |
Ditto Non-Pulmonary | 16 | 0.37 | ... | 14 | 0.36 | 0.40 | 8 | 0.18 | 0.17 | 6 | 0.15 | 0.14 |
Puerperal Fever* | 2 | 5.89 | 3.44 | 3 | 21.35 | 4.09 | 1 | 2.57 | ... | 1 | 2.11 | 1.60 |
Ditto Pyrexia | 7 | 10.67 | ||||||||||
Ophthalmia Neonatorum* | 7 | 14.42 | 9.36 | 10 | 21.35 | 10.19 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Diarrhœa (under 2 vears)*‡ | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 8 | 12.95 | 11.98 | 6 | 12.62 | 10.32 |
* Rates per 1,000 births. † Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914. ‡ Not notifiable.