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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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Table: Special Hospitals— continued.Table III (a)—Acute Hospitals*—Mistaken diagnosis.—Discharges and deaths during1934in which the disease finally diagnosed differed from that statedon the admission certificate.

Special Hospitals— continued.

Table III (a)—Acute Hospitals*—Mistaken diagnosis.—Discharges and deaths during1934in which the disease finally diagnosed differed from that stated

on the admission certificate.

Disease or condition on admission finally diagnosed.Disease certified on admission.
Cerebrospinal fever.Chicken pox.Continued fever.Diphtheria.Dysentery.Encephalitis lethargica.Enteric.Typhoid.Paratyphoid.Erysipelas.Measles.Mumps.Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis.Puerperal fever.Puerperal pyrexia.Rubella.Scarlet fever.Typhus.Whooping-cough.Zymotic enteritis.Other.Total.
Cases.Deaths.
Infectious diseases :
Cerebro-spinal fever----------1-1-------22
Chickenpox----------7-----23-1--311
Continued fever-----------------------
Diphtheria————--——-—101———145—3—1613
Diphtheria (bacteriological)---------1-----3-4--8—
Dysentery----------------1----2—
Encephalitis lethargica----------------------
Enteric fevers—
Typhoid---1-----------1----2—
Paratyphoid A-----------------------
„ B--1------------------1—
„ C-----------------------
Erysipelas----------------3----32
Measles11—48———————1———33229—19—133313
Mumps——15------3----5----14—
Poliomyelitis1--------------------1—
Polioencephalitis---1-----------------11
Puerperal fever-----------------------
Puerperal pyrexia----------------1----1—
Rubella——————————504—————259————763—
Scarlet fever—3—128——————76———127——1—12375
Typhus-----------------------
Whooping-cough———71—————19————15————335
Zymotic enteritis-----------------------
Other infectious diseases2—127111—1-18—11—143—4—11032
Other diseases :
Nervous5——16—1————2314——121-1—1745
Circulatory—2—8——1———316————9————391
Respiratory11—270——————1421————82—81—157927
Digestive12—1,356101342-403-125429—5—21,86615
Genitourinary———3——1—-—4--41-4—1——181
Skin, bones, muscles—64-3--1-1-228111217366-7-16985
Other (including no disease)619-642-412-80-221592-221-30311
TotalCases179231,9381431156—1,15924997911,621—149195,168—
Deaths61—28212---25111--21-9—1-99
*Including cases admitted direct to convalescent hospitals.