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 Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE III.
Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in whole District. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality. | ||||||||
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At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | Bloomsbury and St. Giles. | Holborn. | Bloomsbury and St. Giles. | Holborn. | ||||||
Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||
Smallpox | 211 | 2 | 10 | 19 | 46 | 130 | 4 | 158 | 53 | 155 | 51 |
Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria | 161 | 1 | 56 | 74 | 19 | 11 | - | 60 | 101 | 56 | 96 |
Membranous Croup | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Erysipelas | 89 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 63 | 16 | 58 | 31 | 20 | 4 |
Scarlet Fever | 254 | 2 | 73 | 124 | 39 | 16 | - | 150 | 104 | 141 | 97 |
Typhus Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Enteric Fever | 39 | - | 2 | 12 | 8 | 17 | - | 17 | 22 | 14 | 18 |
Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Chicken pox | 48 | 2 | 20 | 19 | 3 | 4 | - | 20 | 28 | - | - |
Totals | 806 | 9 | 163 | 251 | 120 | 243 | 20 | 466 | 340 | 388 | 266 |
Note.—The Isolation Hospitals are those of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
TABLE IV.
Causes op Death. | Deaths in or belonging to whole District at subjoined Ages. | Deaths in or be-longing to localities (at all ages). | Total DeathsinPublic Institutionsin theDistrict. | |||||||||
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All Ages. | "Under 1. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 65. | 65 andupwards. | Bloomsbury and St. Giles. | Holborn. | ||||
Small-pox | 30 | - | 3 | 1 | 3 | 23 | - | 19 | 11 | - | ||
Measles | 22 | 7 | 14 | 1 | - | - | - | 9 | 13 | 3 | ||
Scarlet Fever | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | ||
Whooping Cough | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 6 | 26 | ||
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup | 14 | - | 9 | 5 | - | - | - | 6 | 8 | 18 | ||
Croup | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Fever | Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Enteric | 12 | - | - | 3 | 2 | 7 | - | 7 | 5 | 3 | ||
Other Continued | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Epidemic Influenza | 9 | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | ||
Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Diarrhoea | 42 | 36 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 18 | 24 | 40 | ||
Enteritis | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 4 | ||
Puerperal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
Erysipelas | 4 | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 2 | ||||
Other Septic Diseases | 8 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 5 | - | 4 | 4 | 6 | ||
Phthisis | 169 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 142 | 8 | 96 | 73 | 42 | ||
Other Tubercular Diseases | 32 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 15 | 49 | ||
Cancer, Malignant Disease | 53 | - | - | - | - | 35 | 18 | 28 | 25 | 26 | ||
Bronchitis | 154 | 23 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 54 | 60 | 55 | 99 | 21 | ||
Pneumonia | 110 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 52 | 15 | 54 | 56 | 78 | ||
Pleurisy | 8 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | ||
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | |||
Alcoholism Cirrhosis of Liver | 29 | - | - | - | - | 29 | - | 19 | 10 | 7 | ||
Venereal Diseases | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | ||
Premature Birth | 32 | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 16 | 16 | ||
Diseases and. Accidents of Parturition | 4 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | 4 | 1 | ||
Heart Diseases | 95 | 2 | - | 4 | 3 | 55 | 31 | 56 | 39 | 39 | ||
Accidents | 36 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 20 | 4 | ||
Suicides | 14 | - | - | - | - | 14 | - | 7 | 7 | - | ||
All other causes | 283 | 58 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 98 | 99 | 134 | 149 | 177 | ||
All causes | 1181 | 203 | 101 | 42 | 47 | 546 | 242 | 575 | 606 | 572 |