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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 1938

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

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Table: TABLE III.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1938.

TABLE III.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1938.

Disease.TotalUnder 1lto22 to 33 to 44 to 56 to 1010 to 1515 to 2020 to 3535 to 4515 to 6665 upTotal Deaths
Small-pox..........................................
Diphtheria49...36621436711......
Erysipelas15........................13741
Scarlet Fever59...2461237511...1......
Enteric Fever..........................................
Puerperal Fever..........................................
do. Pyrexia2........................11.........
Cerebro-spinal Fever1..................1..................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum55....................................
Dysentery10...1......13...11111...
Malaria..........................................
Pneumonia—Primary2012.........2......62521
do. Influenzal1...........................1......
(Tuberculosis—
Pulmonary7111.........22632915332
do. Non-Pulmonary8...............4...21......1...
whooping Cough5386881310..................1
Acute Poliomyelitis..........................................
Encephalitis
Lethargica..........................................
Rheumatism1...............1.....................
29515151819175913206018301135
*Measles1......1...1........................
*Whooping Cough.....................••..................

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* From 1st October, 1938, to 31st December, 1938, inclusive.