London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Population | 216,800 | 213,200 | 206,000 | 204,400 | 204,400 | 195,600 | 194,000 | 190,900 | 187,540 | 185,300 | 183,900 | 181,900 | 179,400 | 167,300 | 133,200 | 103,770 | 105,900 | 108,640 | 105,780 | 111,400 | 129,410 | 136,700 | 140,200 | 141,330 | 141,300 | 139,100 | 139,600 | 138,400 | 136,400 | 134,500 |
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| 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | |
| Acute Influenza and Influenzal Pneumonia | 60 | 121 | 65 | 208 | 24 | 79 | 68 | 111 | 55 | 44 | 46 | 79 | 39 | 31 | 20 | 38 | 26 | 44 | 34 | . | ||||||||||
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 218 | 178 | 282 | 250 | 170 | 193 | 178 | 211 | 300 | 151 | 182 | 150 | 166 | 168 | 86 | 103 | 89 | 79 | 89 | 136 | 123 | 97 | 87 | 112 | 94 | 121 | 104 | 103 | 63 | 59 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | 5 | 3 | 36 | 66 | 26 | 7 | 27 | 36 | 5 | 47 | |
| Anthrax | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Meningococcal infection | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 37 | 29 | 14 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria or Membranous Croup | 523 | 390 | 407 | 374 | 568 | 334 | 301 | 363 | 456 | 440 | 487 | 614 | 374 | 157 | 84 | 118 | 101 | 99 | 58 | 104 | 94 | 41 | 37 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 30 | 51 | 57 | 84 | 63 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 54 | 31 | 56 | 155 | 92 | 24 | 61 | 66 | 44 | 160 | 84 | 161 | 171 | 175 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 11 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | - | - | 1 | _ | - | _ | _ | _ | _ | - | _ | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 15 | 21 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | - | 5 | 3 | - | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Erysipelas | 80 | 98 | 97 | 110 | 120 | 96 | 117 | 121 | 156 | 92 | 81 | 64 | 86 | 51 | 50 | 43 | 56 | 72 | 56 | 60 | 53 | 38 | 46 | 37 | 31 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 18 | 13 |
| Food poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 28 | 22 | 10 | 22 | 65 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 15 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 41 | 40 | 19 | 30 | 80 | 99 | |
| German Measles | 143 | 60 | 83 | 1074 | 116 | 68 | 65 | 486 | 191 | 145 | 78 | 120 | 355 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Malaria | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 51 | 22 | 16 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 11 | 5 | 6 |
| Measles | 3734 | 417 | 3 876 | 591 | 3476 | 430 | 2865 | 437 | 3638 | 120 | 2975 | 638 | 2337 | 85 | 285 | 616 | 1492 | 1082 | 798 | 1025 | 1115 | 902 | 1361 | 1146 | 1057 | 1993 | 1185 | 1371 | 3 98 | 1618 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 43 | 38 | 32 | 36 | 32 | 45 | 74 | 42 | 33 | 23 | 31 | 26 | 22 | 23 | 16 | 19 | 21 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 33 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 6 |
| Puerperal Fever | 14 | 22 | 19 | 23 | 19 | 24 | 30 | 20 | 14 | 24 | 9 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 19 | 6 | 5 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | (a)13 | 47 | 40 | 71 | 52 | 38 | 46 | 45 | 27 | 19 | 23 | 30 | 37 | 34 | 28 | 23 | 29 | 32 | 27 | 34 | 47 | 35 | 34 | 15 | 15 | 51 | 124 | 100 | 81 | 53 |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scabies | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 546 | 931 | 887 | 699 | 300 | 138 | 65 | 48 | 45 | 52 | 45 | 36 | 29 | |
| Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever | 432 | 527 | 618 | 668 | 659 | 435 | 517 | 653 | 705 | 354 | 434 | 364 | 33 3 | 253 | 100 | 136 | 173 | 408 | 184 | 245 | 244 | 124 | 132 | 183 | 190 | 114 | 145 | 182 | 86 | 55 |
| Small-pox | 1 | - | 3 | 87 | 175 | 4 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping cough | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 113 | 526 | 45 | 342 | 480 | 43 9 | 575 | 183 | 511 | 484 | 363 | 3 20 | 432 | 399 | 257 | 385 | 108 | 113 |
NOTES - (a) Puerperal pyrexia notifiable from 1st October, 1926.
(b) Food poisoning notifiable from 12th July, 1932
(c) Whooping cough notifiable and German measles ceased to be notifiable from 1st October, 1938.
(d) Scabies notifiable from 1st August, 1943.
(e) Puerperal fever ceased to be notifiable from October, 1948.
(f) Revoked from 1st January, 1950.
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