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St Pancras 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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(a) Also Regulation No. 1207 made by Minister of Health (1.1.28).
(b) Also Regulation No. 971 made by Minister of Health (1.10.26) amended by S.R.O.
No. 419 (1928) and No. 35 (1937).
(c) Scabies is not notifiable where to the knowledge of the medical practitioner a case
has occurred in the house and has been notified within the 28 days immediately preceding
the date on which he first became aware of the disease in the case he is attending.
Cases of Scabies and Vermin may be treated free of charge at St. Pancras Public Health
Annexe, Prospect Terrace, Gray's Inn Road, W.C.I. (opposite Royal Free Hospital) (Telephone :
TERminus 8567) between the yours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. and on Saturdays 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Removal to Hospital.
Removal to hospital of cases of Chickenpox, German Measles, Measles, Mumps and
Scarlet Fever may be effected by telephoning to the Public Health Department (TERminus
7070).
In the case of other infectious diseases applications should be made direct to the
Emergency Bed Service (MONarch 3000).
NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 1951
(with 1950 comparison).
| Disease | Notifications | Diagnosis subsequently revised | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1 and over | Totals | ||||||
| 1950 | 1951 | | 1950 | 1951 | 1950 1 | i 1951 | 1950 | 1951 | |
| Acute Influenzal and Acute Primary Pneumonia | 93 | 94 | — | |||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | — | — | 26 | 26 | 6 | |||
| Diphtheria and membranous croup | — | — | 8 | 8 | 8 | |||
| Dysentery | 3 | 44 | ||||||
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | — | — | 5 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Erysipelas | 1 | — | 30 | 31 | 2 | |||
| Food poisoning | — | 41 | 41 | — | — | |||
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Measles | 39 | 1,018 | 1,057 | 3 | ||||
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 5 | 6 | — | — | |||
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 16 | — | — | 16 | — | — | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | 15 | 15 | — | — | ||
| Scabies | — | 48 | 48 | — | — | |||
| Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever | — | — | 190 | 190 | ||||
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Whooping Cough | 39 | 393 | 432 | 9 | ||||
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