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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Infectious Diseases in Holborn for the last Eleven Years.
NOTIFICATIONS | DEATHS | |||||||||||
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Decennial Average, 1914-1923 | Year 1924 | Decennial Average, 1914-1923 | Year 1924 | |||||||||
Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | Number | Rate per 1,000 | London Rate | |
Small-pox | 0.3 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Diphtheria | 98 | 2.43 | 2.47 | 68 | 1.5S | 2.30 | 5 | 0.13 | 0.18 | 4 | 0.09 | 0.12 |
Erysipelas | 19 | 0.47 | 0.63 | 22 | 0.51 | 0.41 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 0.02 |
Scarlet Fever | 106 | 2.54 | 3.60 | 88 | 2.03 | 2.50 | 2 | 0.03 | 0.05 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.03 |
Enteric Fever | 5 | 0.13 | 0.09 | 2 | 0.04 | 0.09 | 1 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 2.5 | 0.06 | 0.06 | ... | 0.00 | 0.2 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | 0.01 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 0.02 | ... | ... | 0.00 | 0.00 | ... | ... | ... | 0 | 0.00 | 0.03 |
Whooping Cough† | 58 | 1.39 | ... | 95 | 2.2 | ... | 6 | 0.13 | 0.19 | 6 | 0.13 | 0.11 |
Measles‡ | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 9 | 0.24 | 0.22 | 11 | 0.25 | 0.29 |
Tuberculosis—Pulmonary | 115 | 2.85 | ... | 75 | 1.73 | 0.91 | 66 | 1.65 | 1.34 | 47 | 1.08 | 0.98 |
Ditto Non-Pulmonary | 18 | 0.46 | ... | 12 | 0.28 | 0.21 | 9 | 0.21 | ... | 7 | 0.16 | 0.17 |
Puerperal Fever* | 1.3 | 1.41 | 3.19 | 2 | 3.46 | 3.43 | 1 | 1.41 | ... | 3 | 5.20 | 1.16 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum* | 8 | 11.28 | ... | 10 | 17.30 | 8.57 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Diarrhoea (under 2 years)*‡ | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 9 | 13.9 | 16.9 | 3 | 5.20 | 8.7 |
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* Kates per 1,000 births. † Notifiable in Holborn (not in London) since 1914. ‡ Not Notifiable.