London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

St Pancras 1947

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

This page requires JavaScript

Text

Copy text to clipboard

30
Food Poisoning.
Food Poisoning and suspected Food Poisoning are notifiable by Section 17 of the Food
and Drugs Act, 1938.
Seven notifications were received during the year. There was no death.
Malaria.
One case was notified and there was no death.
Measles.

Table: Particulars of the cases, deaths and incidence and mortality rates of Measles since 1926 are given in the following table:—

Particulars of the cases, deaths and incidence and mortality rates of Measles since 1926 are given in the following table:—

Estimated populationYearCasesDeaths
Under 1 yearOver 1 yearTotalIncidence rate per 1,000 populationUnder 1 year1-5 years5-15 yearsAdultsTotalMortality rate per 1,000 cases
216,80019262603,4743,73417.225382-6517.4
213,2001927403774171.9-5--512.0
206,00019282343,6423,87618.8308710-12732.7
204,40019292856359130-43-711.8
204,40019301793,2973,4761713262-318.9
195,6001931313994302.211--24.7
194,00019321352,7302,86514.8621--279.4
190,9001933383994372.2-4--49.2
187,54019341953,4433,63819.48231-328.8
185,300193523971200.6-1--18.3
183,90019361802,7952,97516.23122-175.7
181,9001937286106383.5-1--11.5
179,40019381662,1712,33713.0561-125.1
167,30019391471850.5------
133,2001940202652852.1—1--13.5
103,7701941455716165.91-1-23.2
105,9001942911,4011,49214.1------
108,6401943899931,0829.913--43.7
105,7801944507487987.5------
111,4001945719541,0259.2--1-11.0
129,4101946741,0411,1158.611—-21.8
136,7001947568469026.6-2--22.2