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City of Westminster 1931

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]

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Table XXI.

Deaths.
Bruce House (L.C.C.) (licensed for 715 men)23
33, Great Peter Street (licensed for 80 men)5
7, St. Ann's Street (Salvation Army) (licensed for 565 men)23
16, Strutton Ground (licensed for 201 men)26
40, Great Peter Street (Church Army) (licensed for 57 women and 2 children)15
Church Army Home, Greencoat Place (131 women)8
100

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 1927-1931.
Details respecting the notifications of infectious disease received are
set out on the adjoining page.

Table XXII.

19271928192919301931
Smallpox_2232
Diphtheria185233170256140
Erysipelas3747543746
Scarlet fever180241227265196
Enteric fever24287187
Continued fever1
Puerperal fever661064
Puerperal pyrexia2621121615
Cerebro-spinal meningitis1128
Encephalitis lethargica1131
Poliomyelitis113
Ophthalmia neonatorum14711161
Measles7199738155174
German measles12211791523
Pneumonia6426512549
Malaria121
Dysentery871
Anthrax
Chicksnpox206210229173204
Mumps1531507316680
Whooping-cough128762461483
Membranous croup1