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The total number of cases on the Tuberculosis Register at the
end of 1927 was 511.
The cases were removed from the register for the following
reasons:—
Deaths 47
Removed from district 23
Cured or disease arrested 15
85
The average number of beds in residential institutions available
for Middlesex patients suffering from tuberculosis during
1927 was 772, details of which will be found on page 12.
The number of deaths from tuberculosis in Hornsey wa6 64
in 1927—the death-rate being 0.7 per 1,000. The rate in 1926
was 0.76. The number of notifications of pulmonary tuberculosis
during the year was 86, and of other forms of tuberculosis 22.
A detailed list of new cases of, and deaths from, tuberculosis
will be found in Table G. (page 41).
Influenza and pneumonia.—Influenza showed a somewhat
increased incidence during the year, 54 deaths being attributed
to this cause, as compared with 13 in 1926. The number of
notifications of pneumonia was 89 and the number of deaths 69.
The Ministry of Health has made new regulations dealing
with the notification of pneumonia, malaria and dysentery, which
came into force on the 1st January, 1928.
The whole of the supply of anti-catarrhal vaccine supplied
to medical practitioners at cost price by the Town Council was
soon exhausted, some 4,800 c.c. having been issued.
Other infectious diseases.—Seven cases of typhoid and paratyphoid
fevers were notified, with 1 death. Three cases of poliomyelitis
(infantile paralysis) were notified, but no case of
encephalitis lethargica. There were no deaths from measles or
whooping cough, but 4 children under two years died of diarrhœa
during the year. No case of small-pox occurred in the Borough.
Ophthalmia neonatorum.—Five cases of ophthalmia
neonatorum were notified during the year. All these cases were
visited by the Health Visitors, and treatment was carried out by
them or the District Nurses where necessary. An arrangement
exists with the Metropolitan Asylums Board for the admission