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City of Westminster 1937

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among the latter class of people tend to increase the death-rates of the
wards in which those lodging houses are situated ; 58 deaths of persons
giving addresses in common lodging houses occurred in 1937. They
were mostly in institutions.

Table XXIII.—Deaths in Common Lodging Houses.

DeathsWard.
Bruce House (L.C.C.)25Strand
33, Great Peter Street4St. John.
7, St. Ann's Street (Salvation Army)21
16, Strutton Ground7
Church Army Home, Greencoat Place1
58

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 1933-1937.
Details respecting the notifications of infectious disease received are
set out in the following pages.

Table XXIV.—Notifications of Infectious Disease.

1933193411*3519361937
Smallpox1
Diphtheria14215311182133
Erysipelas5363443542
Scarlet fever354375194198258
Enteric fever76111216
Continued fever_1__
Puerperal fever45913
Puerperal pyrexia1113171326
Cerebro-spinal meningitis1143412
Encephalitis lethargica1
Poliomyelitis2522
Ophthalmia neonatorum741119
Measles255807195590136
German measles4539102751
Pneumonia6648352228
Malaria_11523
Dysentery13151432
Chicksnpox167146194162164
Mumps13010527210290
Whooping-couch13595134141127