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Hornsey 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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Considering the diseases now notifiable as below (Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup, Enteric or Typhoid Fever
including Paratyphoid Fever, Typhus Fever, Relapsing Fever,
Continued Fever, Puerperal Fever, Erysipelas, Small Pox,
Cholera, Plague, Measles and German Measles, Acute Poliomyelitis,
Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis
or Spotted Fever, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Acute Encephalitis
Lethargica, Acute Polio Encephalitis and Tuberculosis) it will
be seen that the case® notified to me numbered 1,194 in 1919.
This is an increase of 84 as compared with 1918, whe.n 1,110 cases
were notified.
There were 2 cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever notified during
1919.
The notifications of Tubercular Phthisis numbered 1G8,
and other forms of Tuberculosis 25, and have already been referred
to.
The occurrence of the cases in the different Wards and the
number notified during each quarter of the year were as follows