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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
London County Council 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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Special Hospitals—
Table II—Direct discharges and deaths, quarterly, during 1934.
| Disease. | In hospital 1st January, 1934 | Admissions. | Discharges and Deaths. | Case mortality percentage. | In hospital 31st Dec ember, 1934. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January-March. | April—June. | July-September. | October-December. | Total. | ||||||||||
| Cages. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | Cases. | Deaths. | |||||
| Diphtheria | 1,612 | 9,058 | 2,399 | 108 | 2,015 | 100 | 1,993 | 85 | 2,276 | 125 | 8,683 | 418 | 4.71 | 1,987 |
| Diphtheria (bacteriological) | 102 | 1,136 | 239 | 1 | 253 | 8 | 271 | 1 | 305 | 2 | 1,068 | 12 | 1.09 | 170 |
| Enteric fevers | 10 | 29 | 10 | 1 | 8 | — | 7 | 1 | 12 | — | 37 | 2 | 6.06 | 2 |
| Measles | 424 | 12,039 | 3,980 | 338 | 6,875 | 290 | 1,452 | 13 | 142 | 5 | 12,449 | 646 | 5.28 | 14 |
| Puerperal fever and puerperal pyrexia | 14 | 200 | 59 | 6 | 57 | 5 | 52 | 3 | 38 | 3 | 206 | 17 | 8.37 | 8 |
| Scarlet fever | 3,223 | 15,434 | 5,173 | 32 | 3,782 | 22 | 3,590 | 7 | 4,320 | 7 | 16,865 | 68 | 0.42 | 1,792 |
| Whooping-cough | 243 | 1,719 | 483 | 94 | 587 | 72 | 411 | 17 | 268 | 23 | 1,749 | 206 | 11.88 | 213 |
| Other diseases | 577 | 6,490 | 1,617 | 39 | 1,690 | 43 | 1,499 | 14 | 1,775 | 19 | 6,581 | 115 | 1.76 | 486 |
| Total | 6,205 | 46,105 | 13,960 | 619 | 15,267 | 540 | 9,275 | 141 | 9,136 | 184 | 47,638 | 1,484 | 31.7 | 4,672 |