Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]
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COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND DISORDERS.
School Notifications of Exclusion (Patients, Contacts and Suspects), First Quarter ending
Saturday, April 2nd, 1909.
NUMBER OF WEEK.
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Total. | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A. Compulsorily Certifiable Diseases. | |||||||||||||||
Small Pox | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
Scarlet Fever | •• | 80 | 14 | 19 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 8 | 23 | 12 | 156 | |
Diphtheria | •• | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 12 | •• | 12 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 22 | •• | 71 | |
Enteric Fever | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 1 | |
Erysipelas | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
B. Voluntarily Certifiable Diseases. Consumption | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | Compulsory from Pool Law Insti- tutions. |
C. Temporarily Certifiable Diseases. Chicken Pox | •• | 53 | 45 | 23 | 26 | 11 | 36 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 13 | 23 | 14 | 276 | When Small Pox is about. |
D. Non-certifiable Diseases. | |||||||||||||||
Measles | •• | 107 | 52 | 24 | 51 | 51 | 69 | 138 | 159 | 123 | 126 | 93 | 93 | 1058 | |
Whooping Cough | •• | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | C | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 53 | |
Mumps | •• | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 67 | |
Tonsilitis | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
E. Suspicious Symptoms. | |||||||||||||||
Sore Throat | • • | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | • • | |
Feverish Cold | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
Whooping | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
Vomiting | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
Diarrhæa | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
Rash | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
Etc. | •• | 1 | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | 2 | •• | 2 | 1 | 2 | •• | 9 | |
F. Communicable Disorders. | |||||||||||||||
Ophthalmia | •• | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | •• | •• | •• | •• | 1 | •• | 8 | |
Ringworm | •• | 4 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 22 | a | 7 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 117 | |
Impetigo | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | 1 | •• | •• | •• | 1 | 2 | |
Scabies | •• | •• | 2 | 1 | 2 | •• | 7 | 3 | 2 | •• | • • | 1 | 1 | 20 | |
Pediculosis Corporis | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
,, Capitis | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | •• | |
TOTAL | •• | 218 | 153 | 84 | 110 | 103 | 136 | 210 | 202 | 182 | 187 | 202 | 143 | 1930 |