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City of Westminster 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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the City. Some of the residents are permanent in so far that they have
been resident in the Public Assistance institutions for perhaps thirty
or forty years although their original residence, and perhaps even
temporary at that, was in a common lodging house in the City. Deaths
among the latter class of people tend to increase the death-rates of the
wards in which those lodging houses are situated ; 80 deaths of persons
giving addresses in common lodging houses occurred in 1935. They
were mostly in institutions:—
Table XXIII.—Deaths in Common Lodging Houses.
| Deaths. | Ward. | |
|---|---|---|
| Bruce House (L.C.C.) (licensed for 716 men) | 23 | Strand |
| 33, Great Peter Street (licensed for 80 men) | 1 | St. John. |
| 7, St. Ann's Street (Salvation Army) (licensed for 565 men) | 16 | |
| 16, Strutton Ground (licensed for 201 men) | 35 | |
| Church Army Home, Greencoat Place (184 women) | 2 | |
| 40, Great Peter Street (Church Army) (now pulled down) | 3 | |
| « | 80 |
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 1931-1935.
Details respecting the notifications of infectious disease received are
set out in the following pages.
Table XXIV.—Notifications of Infectious Disease.
| 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | 2 | 3 | 1 | — | — |
| Diphtheria | 140 | 80 | 142 | 153 | Ill |
| Erysipelas | 46 | 50 | 53 | 63 | 44 |
| Scarlet fever | 196 | 211 | 354 | 375 | 194 |
| Enteric fever | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 11 |
| Continued fever | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| Puerperal fever | 4 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 15 | 8 | 11 | 13 | 17 |
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis | 8 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 3 |
| Encephalitis lethargica | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis | — | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 7 | 13 | 7 | 4 | 1 |
| Measles | 74 | 810 | 255 | 807 | 195 |
| German measles | 23 | 18 | 45 | 39 | 10 |
| Pneumonia | 49 | 51 | 66 | 48 | 35 |
| Malaria | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 15 |
| Dysentery | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
| Chicken pox | 204 | 201 | 167 | 146 | 194 |
| Mumps | 80 | 92 | 130 | 105 | 272 |
| Whooping-cough | 83 | 138 | 132 | 95 | 134 |
| Membranous croup | 1 | — | — | — | — |