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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Holborn 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1931.
| Disease. | Total | Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 6 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 up | Total Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 69 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 20 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 1 | |||
| Erysipelas | 17 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 57 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 21 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | ||
| Enteric Fever | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Puerporal Fever | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
| do. Pyrexia | 4 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Dysentery | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Malaria | ||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia—Primary | 31 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | |||
| do. Influenzal | 9 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Tuberculosis— Pulmonary | 80 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 30 | 16 | 19 | 4 | 32 | |||||
| do. Non-Pulmonary | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 44 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 4 | ||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Encephalitis Lethargica | ||||||||||||||
| Rhoumatism | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||||||||
| 318 | 28 | 13 | 16 | 23 | 20 | 58 | 20 | 23 | 65 | 33 | 87 | 12 | 48 |