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St Pancras 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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Table: DIPHTHERIA.The following table is of interest as showing (1) the number of cases of diphtheria notified each year in London since 1890, the first complete year of notification; (2) the number of deaths in London from the same cause in the same years, and (3) the number of doses of diphtheria antitoxin of a thousand units each distributed by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to the Medical Officers of the Hospitals of the Board and to private medical practitioners.

DIPHTHERIA.

The following table is of interest as showing (1) the number of cases of diphtheria notified each year in London since 1890, the first complete year of notification; (2) the number of deaths in London from the same cause in the same years, and (3) the number of doses of diphtheria antitoxin of a thousand units each distributed by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to the Medical Officers of the Hospitals of the Board and to private medical practitioners.

Notifications in London.Deaths in London.Doses of antitoxin of 1000 units each supplied by Metropolitan Asylums Board
189058701417-
189159071361-
189277811885-
1893130263265-
1894106552670-
189510772231613600
189613362268324639
189712803226165865
189811543177277424
1899133461964122062
1900117761558101049
190111968134494831
190210538118196367

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The information with regard to antitoxin was kindly supplied by the Clerk
to the Board with the note that the numbers represent doses of 1,000 units,
that a patient may be injected with from two to four doses (2,000 to 4,000
units), and that during the last three years the average amount injected was
3,000 units each patient.
MEASLES.
The London County Council made an order that, on and after the 1st April,
1903, Sections 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 68, 69, 70, 72, 73, and 74 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, with respect to dangerous infectious diseases shall
apply, in the Administrative County of London to Measles, the order having
been approved by the Local Government Board.
In brief, measles in London is now a dangerous infectious disease except in
respect of notification, and of removal to and detention at hospital. Disinfection
is carried out upon application accompanied by a medical certificate.
TUBERCULOSIS.
In the prevention of tuberculosis it is interesting to compare the results
obtained in two countries where the number of the population and the periodical
increases have been very similar during the 19th century, namely England
(and Wales) and Prussia.