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Holborn 1924

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

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TABLE IV.

Infectious Diseases in Holborn for the last Eleven Years.

NOTIFICATIONSDEATHS
Decennial Average, 1914-1923Year 1924Decennial Average, 1914-1923Year 1924
NumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London RateNumberRate per 1,000London Rate
Small-pox0.30.010.0000.000.0000.000.0000.000.00
Diphtheria982.432.47681.5S2.3050.130.1840.090.12
Erysipelas190.470.63220.510.41...............0.02
Scarlet Fever1062.543.60882.032.5020.030.0510.020.03
Enteric Fever50.130.0920.040.0910.020.0200.000.01
Cerebro-Spinal Fever2.50.060.06...0.000.2.........00.000.01
Acute Poliomyelitis10.02......0.000.00.........00.000.03
Whooping Cough†581.39...952.2...60.130.1960.130.11
Measles‡..................90.240.22110.250.29
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary1152.85...751.730.91661.651.34471.080.98
Ditto Non-Pulmonary180.46...120.280.2190.21...70.160.17
Puerperal Fever*1.31.413.1923.463.4311.41...35.201.16
Ophthalmia Neonatorum*811.28...1017.308.57..................
Diarrhoea (under 2 years)*‡..................913.916.935.208.7

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* Kates per 1,000 births. † Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914. ‡ Not Notifiable.