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City of Westminster 1928
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Common Lodging House Deaths.
Reference has been made in former reports to the shifting population
which inhabits the six common lodging houses which are licensed in
the City. Some of the residents are perm^.ent, but a greater proportion
are birds of passage. Deaths among the latter class of people tend to
increase the death-rates of the wards in which those lodging houses are
situated; 84 deaths of persons giving addresses in common lodging
houses occurred in 1928. They were mostly in institutions:—
Table XXI.
Table XXI.
| Deaths. | |
|---|---|
| Bruce House (L.C.C.) (licensed for 715 men) | 37 |
| 33, Great Peter Street | 4 |
| 10, Great Peter Street (Salvation Army) (licensed for 565 men) | 10 |
| 16, Strutton Ground (licensed for 201 men) | 20 |
| 40, Great Peter Street (Church Army) (licensed for women and 2 children) | 12 |
| Church Army Home, Greencoat Place | 1 |
| 84 |
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS
DISEASES.
The following table shows the number of cases of infectious disease
which came to the notice of the department during the period 1924-1928.
Details respecting the notifications of infectious disease received are
set out on the adjoining page.
Table XXII.
Table XXII.
| 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox | 1 | — | — | — | 2 |
| Diphtheria | 237 | 286 | 223 | 185 | 233 |
| Erysipelas | 29 | 44 | 44 | 37 * | 47 |
| Scarlet fever | 226 | 214 | 132 | 180 | 241 |
| Enteric fever | 15 | 17 | 11 | 24 | 28 |
| Continued fever | — | — | — | — | — |
| Puerperal fever | 10 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | — | — | 7 | 26 | 21 |
| Cerebrospinal meningitis | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Encephalitis lethargica | 15 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 23 | 21 | 16 | 14 | 7 |
| Measles | 852 | 117 | 1,026 | 71 | 997 |
| German measles | 34 | 117 | 14 | 12 | 21 |
| Pneumonia | 92 | 58 | 69 | 64 | 26 |
| Malaria | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 |
| Dysentery | — | 3 | — | — | 8 |
| Anthrax | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Chicken-pox | 89 | 149 | 198 | 206 | 210 |
| Mumps | 147 | 120 | 64 | 153 | 150 |
| Whooping-cough | 97 | 255 | 46 | 128 | 76 |