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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Infantile Mortality.
Meningitis and convulsions | 1 | 1 | — |
Diarrhoea and Enteritis | 3 | 3 | — |
Congenital malformation, prematurity and other neo-natal causes | 16 | 14 | 2 |
Want of attention | 1 | — | 1 |
Broncho-pneumonia | 11 | 10 | 1 |
Bronchitis | 3 | 3 | — |
Accident | 2 | 2 | — |
Other causes | 5 | 5 | — |
42 | 38 | 4 |
Infectious Disease.
Polio-encephalitis | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Polio-myelitis | 28 | 28 | 1 |
Diphtheria | 2 | 2 | — |
Erysipelas | 6 | 1 | — |
Scarlet Fever | 48 | 32 | 1 |
Enteric Fever | 1 | 1 | — |
Paratyphoid | 1 | 1 | — |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 | 4 | — |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | — |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | — |
Measles | 635 | 66 | — |
Pneumonia | 15 | 2 | 21* |
Dysentery | 16 | 10 • | — |
Whooping Cough | 91 | 24 , | 1 |
Malaria | 1 | 1 | •— |
Scabies | 21 | 1 | — |
Food Poisoning | 8 | 2 | — |
* Includes deaths of unnotified cases. |
Corrected Diagnosis:—
Whooping Cough, 1; Measles, 2; Polio-myelitis, 2.; Non-notifiable diseases—Removed to hospital:—
German Measles | 3 |
Chickenpox | 9 |
Mumps | 11 |
Gastro-enteritis | 54 |
Lobar Pneumonia | 1 |
Tonsillitis | 12 |