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St Pancras 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Return showing the number of Persons successfully vaccinated and re-vaccinated at the cost of the rates by the Medical Officers of Institutions and the Public Vaccinators during the year ended 30th September, 1932:—
| Name of Institution or Vaccination District. | Name of the Medical Officer or Public Vaccinator. | Nos. of Successful Primary Vaccinations of Persons. | No. of Successful Re-vaccinations, i.e., Successful Vaccination of Persons who had been Successfully Vaccinated at some previous time. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under one year of age. | One year and upwards. | Total. | |||
| Ward 1 | Dr. N. J. Goodchild | 167 | 14 | 181 | 10 |
| „ 2 | „ F. L. Pelly | 147 | 23 | 170 | 10 |
| Wards 3 and 4 | „ J. Wigg | 318 | 20 | 338 | 10 |
| ,, 5, 6, and 7 | „ A. E. Tait | 306 | 35 | 341 | 27 |
| Ward 8 | ,, C. H. A. Alderton | 175 | 15 | 190 | - |
| Highgate Hospital | ,, C. Thackray | - | - | - | 14 |
| St. Pancras Hospital | ,, W. Feldman | 14 | - | 14 | - |
| Totals | 1127 | 107 | 1234 | 71 | |
SCARLET FEVER.
The number of cases notified was 517, as compared with 435 cases during the previous
year. It was subsequently ascertained that 21 cases had been incorrectly diagnosed. The actual
number of cases was therefore 496. Five deaths occurred; this equals a case mortality of l.0
per hundred cases.
Return Cases.—This term is applied to cases of Scarlet Fever which occur in a house
within 28 days of the return from hospital of a previous case. There were 24 such cases
during the year. In tracing the clinical histories it was found that in 7 houses
the original case had definitely developed a nasal discharge shortly after leaving hospital.
Such discharges are known to be highly infectious. Several other primary cases were reported
to have had colds. In 10 cases there was no illness of any kind in the persons who were
just back from hospital, but as the second cases fell within the above definition they are
included.
Multiple cases in one house—that is, several cases occurring more or less together—are
not as frequent as one might expect. In 35 families there were two such cases and in
7 families three multiple cases in each home, in another house 4 and in another 5 multiple cases.
There were two epidemics in Children's Homes, one with 5 and one with 7 cases.
DIPHTHERIA.
The number of cases notified was 301, as compared with 334 cases during the previous
year. It was subsequently reported by the hospital authorities that 62 cases had been incorrectly
diagnosed, the actual number of cases was therefore 239. This equals an attack rate of 1.2
per 1,000 of population. Ten deaths occurred, giving a case mortality of 41 per cent.