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City of Westminster 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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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 permanent, 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; 107 deaths of persons giving addresses in common lodging
houses occurred in 1932. They were mostly in institutions :—
| Deaths. | |
|---|---|
| Bruce House (L.C.C.) (licensed for 715 men) | 30 |
| 33, Great Peter Street (licensed for 80 men) | 6 |
| 7, St. Ann's Street (Salvation Army) (licensed for 565 men) | 33 |
| 16, Strutton Ground (licensed for 201 men) | 20 |
| 40, Great Peter Street (Church Army) (licensed for 57 women and 2 children) | 8 |
| Church Army Home, Greencoat Place (131 women) | 10 |
| 107 |
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 1928.1932.
Details respecting the notifications of infectious disease received are
set out on the adjoining page.
Table XXII.
| 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Diphtheria | 233 | 170 | 256 | 140 | 80 |
| Erysipelas | 47 | 54 | 37 | 46 | 50 |
| Scarlet fever | 241 | 227 | 265 | 196 | 211 |
| Enteric fever | 28 | 7 | 18 | 7 | 7 |
| Continued fever | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Puerperal fever | 6 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 7 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 21 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 8 |
| Cerebrospinal meningitis | 1 | 2 | — | 8 | 6 |
| Encephalitis lethargica | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Poliomyelitis | — | 1 | 3 | — | 1 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 7 | 11 | 16 | 7 | 13 |
| Measles | 997 | 381 | 551 | 74 | 810 |
| German measles | 21 | 179 | 15 | 23 | 18 |
| Pneumonia | 26 | 51 | 25 | 49 | 51 |
| Malaria | 2 | — | — | 1 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 8 | 7 | — | 1 | 2 |
| Anthrax | — | — | — | — | — |
| Chicksnpox | 210 | 229 | 173 | 204 | 201 |
| Mumps | 150 | 73 | 166 | 80 | 92 |
| Whooping.cough | 76 | 246 | 14 | 83 | 138 |
| Membranous croup | — | — | — | 1 | —. |