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The figures for England and Wales and London are taken from the RegistrarGeneral's
Statistical Reviews for the years 1022-27.
Scarlet Fever.
There were 111 notifications of scarlet fever. All but 3 were removed to
hospital.
Eleven cases were returned as not suffering from scarlet fever; four were
found to be suffering from erythema, two from measles, one from cervical adenitis,
one from catarrhal sore throat, and one impetigo of face and scalp.
Seventeen notifications of "secondary" cases were received, one being a nurse
at a hospital in the Borough; from two hospitals in the Borough 11 in-patients were
notified as so suffering. None was resident in Holborn.
Two of the cases notified were "return" cases 7: the patients causing the
return cases were examined and readmitted to hospital.
There was no death from this disease.
15,207 cases of scarlet fever were notified in London with 81 deaths.
Typhoid Fever and Paratyphoid Fever.
Ten cases were notified during the year. In London 580 cases were notified,
giving rise to 51 deaths.
During July and August, 1028, there was an outbreak of paratyphoid fever
in London and some adjoining districts. Two hundred and sixty-two cases were
notified in London during the nine weeks July and August. Of these 76 were
typhoid fever, 183 paratyphoid B. and 3 continued fever. During the period of this
outbreak three cases of paratyphoid fever were notified in the Borough. From
enquiries made and the histories of these three cases, there appeared to be
no ground to suppose that any of the three arose from the source of infection
common to the London outbreak.
To warn the public as to the possibility that the occurrence of diarrhoea might
signify the onset of paratyphoid fever a special poster was exhibited in the Borough.