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PNEUMONIA.
This disease is a frequent complication of other diseases, such as Measles. When it
occurs in that manner it is not notifiable.
The notifiable forms of Pneumonia are Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
There were 166 notifications of the former and 39 of the latter, during 1938 (as compared
with 150 and 79 respectively for 1937). There were 11 deaths from these forms of
Pneumonia during the year.
If requested by the medical attendant, a visiting nurse is supplied in necessitous cases
at the cost of the Borough Council. In 1938, 32 cases were nursed under this arrangement
and 642 nursing visits were paid.
MALARIA.
Cases of Malaria diagnosed in the Borough are notified to this Authority. Five cases
were notified and there was one death.
Of the cases notified two were in-patients of the hospital for Tropical Diseases,
Endsleigh Gardens, and one was an in-patient of the St. Luke's Hostel, Fitzroy Square.
These were ex-St. Pancras rnsidents. Of the other two, both St. Pancras residents, one was
an in-patient of Horton Hospital.
DYSENTERY.
The same rule for the notification of Malaria (as described above) applies to Dysentery.
63 cases were notified during the year, of which two died. 58 of the cases were St.
Pancras residents, and of the remaining five, four were in-patients of the Hospital for
Tropical Diseases and one of the Royal Free Hospital. Bacteriological examinations were
made in 44 cases iu which the types were:—Sonne, 37; Amoebic, 5, and 2 Acute Bacillary.
Fourteen cases were diagnosed clinically, and five were subsequently held not to be
Dysentery.
FOOD POISONING.
Food Poisoning and suspected Food Poisoning were made notifiable by Section 7 of the
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1932, which came into force on July 12th,
of that year.
Eight notifications were received during the year. There was no death.
MEASLES AND GERMAN MEASLES.
Notification of these diseases in St. Pancras was compulsory until 30th September
under the Metropolitan Boroughs of Lambeth and St. Pancras (Measles and German Measles)
Regulations, 1920.
Under these Regulations all cases were notifiable by parents and guardians, but only the
first case occurring in an outbreak in a household or institution was notifiable by medical
practitioners, an interval of two months since the last case constituting a new outbreak.