Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Notification | Removal to Hospital | Deaths | |
---|---|---|---|
Polio-myelitis | 1 | 1 | - |
Diphtheria | 18 | - | |
Erysipelas | 9 | 5 | - |
Scarlet Fever | 55 | 43 | -- |
Enteric Fever | . ¡ª | - | - |
Paratyphoid | - | - | |
Puerperal Fever | 3 | - | |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 7 | 6 | |
Cerebro Spinal MerJnrttis | 6 | - | |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | -- |
Measles | 474 | 68 | - |
Pneumonia | 12 | 19 | |
Dysentery | 16 | 12 | 2 |
Whooping Cough | 56 | 23 | 2 |
Malaria | 2 | - | . - |
scabi.es | 323 | ¡ª |
Corrected diagnosis: Scarlet Fever 3.
Non-notifiable diseases - removed to hospital:- | |
German Measles | 2 |
Chick or pox | 2 |
Mump 1 | 1 |
Gastro-Enteritis | 11 |
The incidence of Diphtheria was markedly loss while Measleshad its
usual binomial
epidemic. No cases of the Enteric group were notified.
VACCINATION
Persons vaccinated by Public Vaccinator: Primary ?68
Secondary 29
The number of primary vaccinations were doubled ov:ing to the return of
families. *
BACTEFTCHor.Tg.YL EXAMINATIONS
Diptheria- negative 157; positive 5
Tuberculosis- negative 106; positive 52
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary: 193 new cases, including 17 transfers and 8 non-notified deaths.
Non-pulmonary: 24 new cases, including 3 transfers and 2 non-notified deaths.
(1944 - Pulmonary: 170 new cases; Non-pulmonary: 1.9 now cases).
New Cases and Deaths
Age Periods | New Cases Pulmonary N on-pulmonary | Deaths | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pulmonary | Non-pulmonary | |||||||
M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | - F, | |
Under 1 year | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |
1 to 5 years | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
5 " 10 " | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | ||
10 " 15 " | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | ||
15 " 20 " | 10 | 2 | - | - | - | e | ¡ö - | |
20 " 25 " | 11 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
25 " 35 " | 25 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 2 | |
14 | 12 | 2 | - | 6 | 2 | 1 | - | |
45 " 55 " | - | 1 | 8 | 1 | - | - | ||
18 | 6 | 1 | - | 10 | 1 | 1 | - | |
65 & upwards | 5 | 1 | 1 | |||||
110 | 83 | 17 | 2 |