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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Visitors to houses where cases of Whooping Cough occurred, and
269 premises were disinfected.
Influenza.
The number of deaths from Influenza was 111, compared
with 139 in 1924 and 56 in 1923.
The death-rate was .3 per 1,000.
Influenzal Pneumonia and Acute Primary Pneumonia.
84 cases of acute Influenzal Pneumonia and 357 cases of
acute Primary Pneumonia were notified. 19 of the former and
52 of the latter died.
The total number of deaths credited to all forms of Pneumonia
during the year was 181, compared with 233 in 1924, 189
in 1923, 236 in 1922, 241 in 1921, and 227 in 1920.
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Seven cases of this disease occurred and five of them died.
A further 12 deaths were registered as being caused by Meningitis.
Polio-myelitis and Polio-encephalitis.
Three cases occurred with no deaths.
Early in the year the Metropolitan Asylums Board provided
accommodation at Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, for the
treatment of children suffering from Polio-myelitis in the later
and more chronic stages of the disease. The arrangements were
made through the London County Council to whom application
has to be made for a case to be accommodated.
One child has been admitted for treatment under this scheme.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
19 cases of this disease occurred and 11 of them died. Several
other cases were notified, but as they were found, after further
investigation, to be suffering from some other disease, they are
not included in these figures.
This is a decrease compared with 1924, when there were 32
cases with 14 deaths.