[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough] page 132

Holborn 1929

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]

This page requires JavaScript

Table: TABLE IV. Infectious Diseases in Holborn for the last Eleven Years.

Download table as:

TABLE IV. Infectious Diseases in Holborn for the last Eleven Years.

	NOTIFICATIONS						DEATHS
	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	2	5.96	3.63	5	15.31	10.84	1	2.52	1.37	0	0.00	1.88
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.