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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 1947
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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MEASLES—Mortality rate per 1,000 cases.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
The number of cases notified was 23, of which 16 were St. Pancras residents. All
these cases recovered satisfactorily. The remaining seven cases were ex-St. Pancras residents
but were in-patients of St. Pancras hospitals when the disease occurred. In addition 54 cases
of mild inflammation of the eyes were reported.
Puerperal Pyrexia and Puerperal Fever.
In 1947 there were 35 notifications of Puerperal Pyrexia and five notifications of
Puerperal Fever.
Scabies.
300 cases were notified (as compared with 699 in 1946, 887 in 1945, and 931 in 1944)
and a further 57 cases came to the notice of the Department.
In only one case was the diagnosis not confirmed, and all were visited.