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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NOTIFICATIONS | DEATHS | |||||||||||
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Decennial Average, 1819-1928 | Year 1929 | Decennial Average, 1919-1928 | Year 1929 | |||||||||
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 | 43 | 1.12 | 0.43 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Diphtheria | 94 | 2.23 | 2.79 | 72 | 1.88 | 2.68 | 4 | 0.09 | 0.16 | 2 | 0.05 | 0.08 |
Erysipelas | 19 | 0.45 | 0.46 | 22 | 0.57 | 0.49 | ... | ... | 0.02 | ... | ... | 0.03 |
Scarlet Fever | 105 | 2.49 | 3.54 | 130 | 3.39 | 3.60 | 1 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
Enteric Fever | 0 | 0.11 | 0.08 | 5 | 0.13 | 0.08 | 0.2 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.03 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.02 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Whooping Cough† | 84 | 2.78 | ... | 153 | 3.99 | ... | 4 | 0.10 | 0.12 | 7 | 0.18 | 0.26 |
Measles‡ | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 5 | 0.12 | 0 .17 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.05 |
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary | 79 | 2.89 | ... | 76 | 1.98 | 1.61 | 45 | 1.10 | 1.00 | 40 | 1.04 | 0.96 |
Ditto Non-Pulmonary | 16 | 0.37 | ... | 12 | 0.31 | 0.37 | 7 | 0.17 | 0.17 | 4 | 0.10 | 0.13 |
Puerperal Fever* | 2 | 5.96 | 3.63 | 1 | 15.31 | 4.46 | 1 | 2.52 | 1.37 | 0 | 0.00 | 1.88 |
Ditto Pyrexia | 5 | 10.84 | ||||||||||
Ophthalmia Neonatorum* | 9 | 10.28 | 9.46 | 6 | 15.31 | 10.42 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Diarrhœa (under 2 years)*‡ | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 7 | 12.40 | 11.43 | 3 | 7.65 | ... |
* Rates per 1,000 births. † Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914. ‡Not notifiable. |