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The total number of notifications relating to Holborn residents received during
the year was 446 in comparison with 430 in the year 1923.
Attention has had again especially to be called to the non-notification of whooping
cough, primary pneumonia and ophthalmia neonatorum. A list of the notifiable diseases
is from time to time supplied to all doctors practising in the Borough.
In addition to the above there were received 226 notifications respecting
patients not residing in Holborn, many being in-patients of hospitals in the
"Borough. All these were forwarded to the Medical Officers of Health of the
districts concerned. The 226 notifications so received were as follows:—
Diphtheria 24
Scarlet Fever 28
Whooping Cough 1
Typhoid Fever 2
Paratyphoid Fever 1
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 4
Encephalitis Lethargica 8
Acute Poliomyelitis 31
Pneumonia 2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 9
Measles 2
Tuberculosis 114
226
Smallpox.
No notification was received.
Five cases of smallpox were notified in London.
Information of 15 passengers arriving on vessels on which smallpox had occurred
during the voyage, or which came from infected po:ts, was received, and the necessary
visits for keeping such contacts under observation were made.
In all except one case the addresses given in this Borough were hotels. It
was possible to see 12 of the 15 travellers. In one case the name given was not
known, and in another, although the passenger had visited the hotel he had gone
away leaving no address, before he could be visited after receipt of notice from
the Port Sanitary Authority. In a third case the passenger had also left the
hotel, but we were able to obtain his new address and forward the information to
the Medical Officer of Health of the district concerned.