London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
City of Westminster 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever waned. It was not a "measles year"
but there was a sharp outbreak of Whooping Cough in the months of
November and December, causing two deaths. The cases were mostly
among children of school age attending schools in the Victoria and St.
John Wards.
The fifteen cases of Malaria were notified from the Military
Hospital at Millbank and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Gordon
Street, W.C.1, as were the majority of the fifteen cases of dysentery.
No cases of anthrax, epidemic jaundice, undulant fever, glandular
fever or psittacosis came to the notice of the department. Rheumatic
Fever is not notifiable in Westminster.
Vaccination.—The Vaccination Officer reports that the following number of persons were vaccinated by the Public Vaccinators during the year:—
| Primary | 534 |
| Secondary | 36 |
These figures do not include vaccinations and re-vaccinations done
by private practitioners. No vaccination was done by the Medical
Officer of Health under the Public Health (Smallpox Protection)
Regulations, 1917. The report of the Vaccination Officer is given below
in the form of tables prescribed by the Ministry of Health in the
Vaccination Order.