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Holborn 1929

[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, 1819-1928Year 1929Decennial Average, 1919-1928Year 1929
NumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London Rate
Small-pox0.30.010.00431.120.4300.000.0000.000.00
Diphtheria942.232.79721.882.6840.090.1620.050.08
Erysipelas190.450.46220.570.49......0.02......0.03
Scarlet Fever1052.493.541303.393.6010.030.0300.000.02
Enteric Fever00.110.0850.130.080.20.000.0100.000.01
Cerebro-spinal Fever10.020.0200.000.03...............0.02
Acute Poliomyelitis10.020.0100.000.01.........00.000.00
Whooping Cough†842.78...1533.99...40.100.1270.180.26
Measles‡..................50.120 .1700.000.05
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary792.89...761.981.61451.101.00401.040.96
Ditto Non-Pulmonary160.37...120.310.3770.170.1740.100.13
Puerperal Fever*25.963.63115.314.4612.521.3700.001.88
Ditto Pyrexia510.84
Ophthalmia Neonatorum*910.289.46615.3110.42..................
Diarrhœa (under 2 years)*‡..................712.4011.4337.65...
* Rates per 1,000 births. † Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914. ‡Not notifiable.