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The total number of notifications relating to Holborn residents received during
the year was 332 in comparison with 402 in the year 1932.
The decrease is accounted far by the lesser number of notifications received of
the following diseases:—
Tuberculosis 59 in comparison with 89 in 1932.
Whooping Cough 23 ,, ,, 108 „
On the other hand; there were 90 notifications of scarlet fever in comparison
with 57 in 1932.
Attention has had again especially to be called to the non-notification of
whooping cough and primary pneumonia. A special reference card with complete
list of notifiable diseases is supplied to all doctors practising in the Borough.
In addition to the above we received 224 notifications respecting patients not residing
in Holborn, many being in-patients of hospitals in the Borough. All these were forwarded
to the Medical Officers of Health of the districts concerned. The diseases notified were:—
Chicken-pox 8
Diphtheria 73
Erysipelas 6
Paratyphoid Fever 1
Measles 9
Scarlet Fever 43
Tuberculosis 54
Whooping Cough 12
Pneumonia 1
Cerebrospinal Fever 1
Acute Poliomyelitis 6
Acute Rheumatism 10
224
Smallpox.
This disease continued to be prevalent in London throughout the year 1933.
Only one notification was received of a case occurring in a Holborn resident
during the year 1933. The patient was removed to hospital, and was subsequently
returned not suffering from smallpox, the diagnosis of chicken-pox and scabies
being established.
During the same period information was received of the occurrence of this
disease in three non-resident workers, and seven cases among children attending an
elementary school in Holborn, all being non-resident in the Borough.
In the County of London 531 cases were notified, a notification rate of 012
per 1,000.