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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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practitioners and the London County Council Schools, it was discovered that at least sixteen
cases of jaundice had occurred in children residing in Wards 5, 6 and 8 during the previous
3 months. The information available indicated that the disease was mild in character and
disappeared in from 4 to 14 days without the occurrence of nephritis or haemorrhage. It has
been shown that epidemics of jaundice of severe type may be due to an organism, the
leptospira ictero-hæmorrhagica, which is spread by rats, and it has been suggested that even
epidemics of the mild form may be due to the same cause. In the present instance, material
from two eases was forwarded to Dr. Teale, of University College Hospital, in order to make a
bacteriological examination, but no signs of leptospira were found.
Epidemic catarrhal jaundice has lately been the subject of a report from the Ministry of
Health. It is thought that epidemics of jaundice have become more frequent in recent years,
and several of these epidemics have been carefully investigated. They usually occur during
November and amongst children, but up to the present no cause for them has been discovered.
TUBERCULOSIS.
Particulars of all new cases of Tuberculosis and of all deaths from this disease during 1927 are given in the following table in the form required by the Ministry of Health :—
| Age Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | N on-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | .M- | F. | |
| 0—1 | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | 3 |
| 1—5 | — | 1 | 7 | 6 | — | — | 3 | 3 |
| 5—10 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 14 | — | — | — | — |
| 10—15 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 4 | — | 2 | 1 | - |
| 15—20 | 16 | 24 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 1 | 1 |
| 20—25 | 16 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 11 | — | 2 |
| 25—35 | 37 | 36 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 20 | 1 | — |
| 36—45 | 62 | 40 | 3 | 1 | 25 | 20 | — | 3 |
| 45—55 | 48 | 21 | 4 | — | 35 | 12 | 1 | — |
| 55—65 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | — | — |
| 65 & upwards | 6 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | — | — |
| Totals | 211 | 167 | 49 | 43 | 108 | 89 | 8 | 12 |
The total number of Primary notifications was 397 ; in addition to these, 42 cases,
which had not been notified, came to knowledge by means of special death reports, and 31
cases by transfer from other districts.
The total number of new cases during the year from all sources was therefore 470,
equal to a notification rate of 2.21 per 1,000 of population.
The deaths from all forms of Tuberculosis during the year numbered 217, equal to a
death-rate of 1*02 per 1,000 of population.