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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Holborn 1924

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

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Table: TABLE III.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1924.

TABLE III.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the year 1924.

Notifiable Disease.Number of Cases Notified.Total Cases Notified in each Locality (e.g. Parish or Ward) of the District.Total Cases Removed to Hospitals.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.
Under 11 to 55 to 1515 to 2525 to 4546 to 6565 and wards.St. Giles and Bloomsbury.Holborn.
Small-pox.................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)68128191361...194967
Erysipelas22...12266581412
Scarlet Fever88...265210.........286088
Enteric Fever2............11...112
Puerperal Fever2............2......112
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.................................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1010..................552
Dysentery1............1......1...1
Malaria1..................1...1...
Pneumonia—Primary533132113165242928
do. Influenzal10...21...412464
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary751...41434184393651
do. Non-Pulmonary12...42123...2108
Whooping Cough95176414............108545
Acute Poliomyelitis.................................
Encephalitis Lethargica6......1...41...424
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