[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough] page 36

Islington 1931

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

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1931 ]
or Farcy, Hydrophobia or Rabies, Malaria, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Plague,
Tuberculosis, Puerperal Pyrexia, and Chicken.pox (except in the vaccinated under
10 years of age).
Acute Poliomyelitis.

Table: Four cases were notified from this disease during the year, as contrasted with four in 1930, and three in 1929.

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Four cases were notified from this disease during the year, as contrasted with four in 1930, and three in 1929.

	1931		1930
	Cases.	Deaths.	Cases.	Deaths.
1st Quarter	Nil	Nil	2	Nil
2nd			Nil
3rd	1	,,	,,
4th	3	,,	2	,,
	4	Nil	4	Nil

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Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Sixteen cases came to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health,
although only 10 were notified, as against 8 in 1930. During the ten years 1921.30
the cases averaged 8 per annum.

Table: A return of attacks of the disease during the past ten years is given in the following statement:—

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A return of attacks of the disease during the past ten years is given in the following statement:—

	1921	1922	1923	1924	1925	1926	1927	1928	1929	1930	Average 10 yrs. 1921.30	1931	Total Deaths, 1921-30.
1st Quarter	3	1	3	-	2	3	3	1	2	4	2	4	21
2nd	3	2	2	—	1	3	3	4	2	5	3	9	24
3rd	—	-	2	2	2	3	—	2	2	2	1	1	11
4th „	1	-	1	4	1	2	1	1	3	2	2	2	12
Year	7	3	8	6	6	11	7	8	9	13	8	16	68

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The deaths during the year numbered 11, and were equal to the very high rate
of 68 per cent, of the cases notified.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES (LONDON) REGULATIONS, 1927.
Malaria, Dysentery, Acute Primary Pneumonia and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
Schedule dealing with Typhus, Relapsing and Enteric Fevers.
Regulations dealing with these diseases came into force on the 7th January,
1919.

Table: Dysentery; and the alterations of the Regulations, to suit London, were fully dealt with in the Annual Report for 1927, pages 34 and 35. During the past five years the following cases were notified by medical practitioners to the Medical Officer of Health.

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Dysentery; and the alterations of the Regulations, to suit London, were fully dealt with in the Annual Report for 1927, pages 34 and 35. During the past five years the following cases were notified by medical practitioners to the Medical Officer of Health.

	1927	1928	1929	1930	1931
Malaria	2	-	2	Nil	1
Dysentery	5	1	6	Nil	6
Acute Primary Pneumonia	202	288	397	323	370
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia	124	50	122	36	115
Total	333	339	527	359	492

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Islington 1931

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Table: Four cases were notified from this disease during the year, as contrasted with four in 1930, and three in 1929.

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Table: A return of attacks of the disease during the past ten years is given in the following statement:—

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Table: Dysentery; and the alterations of the Regulations, to suit London, were fully dealt with in the Annual Report for 1927, pages 34 and 35. During the past five years the following cases were notified by medical practitioners to the Medical Officer of Health.