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St Pancras 1958

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

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Notification of Infectious Diseases since 1929

Population204,400204,400195,600194,000190,900187,540185,300183,900181,900179,400167,300133,200103,770105,900108,640105,780111,400129,410136,700140,200141,330141,300139,100139,600138,400136,400134,500133,100132,000130,800
192919301931193219331934193519361937193819391940194119421943194419451946194719481949195019511952195319541955195619571958
Acute Influenza and Influenzal Pneumonia2082479681115544467939312038264434136123978711294121104103635969150151
Acute Primary Pneumonia25017019317821130015118215016616886103897989
Acute Poliomyelitis211472428521323-533676626727365479124
Meningococcal infection47121384526131237291451089766676355338
Diphtheria or Membranous Croup3745683343013634564404876143741578411810199581049441371181211841--2
Dysentery3114130515784631021954315615592246166441608416117117591126156
Encephalitis Lethargica452--1---------2-----(e)----11256
Enteric or Typhoid Fever1671385671110767123215521-53-326222
Erysipelas11012096117121156928164865150435672566053384637312425261813111214
Food poisoning--(a)1628221022658417215389721241401930809963129119
Malaria121132951221651---12471-11-2115613231
Measles59134764302865437363812029756382337852856161492108279810251115902136111461057199311851371398161882710181505
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3632457442332331262223161921126103323191916729736973
Puerperal Fever231924302014249147658861619656(d)---------
Puerperal Pyrexia71523846452719233037342823293227344735341515511241008153275964
Scabies-------------(c)54693188769930013865484552453629425051
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever668659435517653705354434364333253100136173408184245244124132181190114145182865572103109
Small-pox8717545---------------1---------
Typhus----------------2-----1------
Whooping cough--------(b)1135264534248043957518351148436332043239925738510811317427542

NOTES:- (a) Pood poisoning notifiable from 12th July, 1932.
(b) Whooping cough notifiable and German measles ceased to be notifiable from 1st October, 1938.
(c) Scabies notifiable from 1st August, 1943.
(d) Puerperal fever ceased to be notifiable from October, 1948.
(e) Superseded by acute Encephalitis, as from 1st January, 1950.
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