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The total number of notifications relating to Holborn residents received during
the year was 411 in comparison with 332 in the year 1933.
The increase is accounted for by the larger number of notifications received
of the following diseases:—
Scarlet Fever 115 in comparison with 96 in 1933.
Tuberculosis 89 ,, ,, 59 ,,
Whooping Cough 65 ,, ,, 23 ,,
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 310 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 2
Diphtheria 71
Erysipelas 3
Paratyphoid Fever 2
Measles 19
Scarlet Fever 59
Tuberculosis 76
Whooping Cough 31
Pneumonia 19
Cerebrospinal Fever 7
Acute Poliomyelitis 11
Acute Parotitis 1
Dysentery 7
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1
Mumps 1
310
Smallpox.
No case of smallpox occurred in a Holborn resident during the year 1934.
During the same period information was received of the occurrence of this
disease in two non-resident workers.
In the County of London 146 cases were notified, a notification rate of 0.03
per 1,000. One death was recorded from the disease.