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Holborn 1919

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn, Metropolitan Borough]

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TABLE V.
NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE BOROUGH DURING 1919
AND DURING THE PRECEDING TEN YEARS.
(Excluding Naval and Military Cases)

Table V. NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE BOROUGH DURING 1919 AND DURING THE PRECEDING TEN YEARS. (Excluding Naval nad Military Cases)

Disease.1909191019111912191319141915191619171918Annual Average1919
Small-pox10000000010.20
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup474585885963679969797088
Erysipelas414237482922282215102925
Scarlet Fever98681201131311731546629239854
Typhus Fever000000000000
Enteric Fever162510127156922102
Continued Fever100000000011
Puerperal Fever302014220010
Cerebro-spinal Fever0101001036022
Acute Polio-myelitis002003010.70
Ophthalmia Neonatorum55366124567
Tuberculosis Pulmonary33217018721016911516218513715218276
Do. Non-Pulmonary3520363312112518
Total..539351446477436418471434274284425273

Chicken Pox was notifiable during the period in the above table as follows:—
1911 22nd March to 21st June - during which period 101 notifications were received.
1915 17th March to 30th June - „ „ ,, 27 „ „ „
1918 27th March to 30th June - „ „ „ 33 „ „ „

Measles and German Measles were notifiable from the 1st January, 1916, to the 31st December, 1919, during which period the following notifications of civil cases were received:-

MeaslesGerman Measles
191616390
1917496145
191814839
191913645

Whooping Cough was made notifiable in Holborn for 5 years from the 1st April, 1914, and was continued for a further 5 years from 1st October, 1919. Notifications have been received as follows :—

191477191715
191592191831
19162119193