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 VII.
Year | Small Pox. | Measles. | Scarlet Fever. | Diphtheria. | Whooping Cough. | Enteric Fever. | Diarrhœa. 1 | Total. | ||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number. | Rate per 1000 | Number. | Rate per 1000 | Number. | Rate per 1100 | Number. | Rate per 1000 | dumber. | Rate per 1000 | Num ber. | Rate per 1000 | Number. | Rate per 1000 | Number. | Rate per 1000 | |
1909 | 14 | 0.27 | 3 | 0.08 | 3 | 0.06 | 15 | 0.29 | 1 | 0.02 | 7 | 0.14 | 43 | 0.84 | ||
1910 | — | — | 13 | 0.26 | — | — | 4 | 0.08 | 16 | 0.32 | 4 | 0.08 | 6 | 0.12 | 43 | o.86 |
1911 | — | — | T5 | 0.31 | 3 | 0.06 | 3 | 0.06 | 3 | 0.06 | 2 | 0.04 | 33* | 0-67* | 59 | 1.21 |
1912 | — | — | 25 | 0.52 | 0 | 0.00 | 6 | 0.13 | 7 | 0.15 | 1 | 0.02 | 8* | 0.17* | 47 | 0.98 |
1913 | — | — | 7 | 0.15 | 0 | 0.00 | 4 | 0.08 | 6 | 0.13 | 0 | 0.02 | 12 * | 0.25* | 29 | 0.16 |
1914 | — | — | 11 | 0.24 | 2 | 0.04 | 3 | 0.06 | 9 | 0.19 | 6 | 0.13 | 11* | 0.24* | 42 | 0.90 |
1915 | — | — | 19 | 0.47 | 1 | 0.02 | 11 | 0.27 | 12 | 0.30 | 1 | 0.02 | 11 | 0.27 | 55 | 1.37 |
1916 | — | — | 3 | 0.08 | 2 | 0.05 | 10 | 0.26 | 4 | 0.11 | — | - | 10 | 0.26 | 29 | 0.76 |
1917 | — | — | 37 | 1.05 | 0 | 0.00 | 1 | 0.03 | 1 | 0.03 | — | - | 9 | 0.25 | 48 | 1.35 |
1918 | — | — | 6 | 0.16 | 0 | 0.00 | 5 | 0.14 | 13 | 0.35 | 3 | 0.08 | 9 | 0.24 | 36 | 0.98 |
Average 10 years 1909-1918 | - | — | 15 | 0.35 | 1 | 0.02 | 5 | 0.11 | 9 | 0.19 | 2 | 0.04 | 12 | 0.26 | 43 | 0.98 |
1919 | — | — | 1 | 0-03 | — | — | 6 | 0.16 | — | — | 1 | 0.03 | 6 | 0.16 | 14 | 0.37 |
London 1919 | 1 | 0.00 | 356 | 0.08 | 137 | 0.03 | 720 | 0.18 | 210 | 0.05 | 49 | 0.01 | 1434 | 0.33 | 2907 | 0.68 |
* The Registrar General since 1911 has taken the deaths from diarrhœa and enteritis under
two years of age.