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Table: Table 10—County of London—Notifiable infectious diseases—Annual number of notifications and numbers per 1,000 of population—1933-1945

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Table 10—County of London—Notifiable infectious diseases—Annual number of notifications and numbers per 1,000 of population—1933-1945

Year	Anthrax		Cerebrospinal fever		Continued fever		Diphtheria		Dysentery		Encephalitis lethargica		Enteric fever		Erysipelas		Malaria		Measles		Ophthalmia neonatorum		Pneumonia		Polioencephalitis		Poliomyelitis		Puerperal fever		Puerperal pyrexia		Scabies		Scarlet fever		Smallpox		Typhus		Whooping-cough
Year	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate	Cases	Rate
1933	3	0.001	216	0.050	5	0.001	9,557	2.229	31	0.007	22	0.005	164	0.038	2,766	0.645	21	0.005	(b)	(b)	527	(a) 9.313	6,299	1.469	6	0.001	60	0.014	255	(a) 4.506	838	(a) 14.809	(b)	(b)	21,911	5.111	531	0.124	-	—	(b)	(b)
1934	3	0.001	137	0.032	4	0.001	11,782	2.793	58	0.014	29	0.007	109	0.026	2,586	0.613	30	0.007	(b)	(b)	467	8.237	5,569	1.320	8	0.002	66	0.016	254	4.480	758	13.369	(b)	(b)	18,238	4.323	144	0.034	—	—	(b)	(b)
1935	2	0.0005	105	0.025	3	0.001	9,294	2.227	199	0.048	15	0.004	187	0.045	1,868	0.448	37	0.009	(b)	(b)	382	6.867	3,787	0.907	4	0.001	81	0.019	241	4.332	652	11.721	(b)	(b)	10,954	2.625	—	—	—	—	(b)	(b)
1936	-	—	113	0.027	4	0.001	7,030	1.675	304	0.072	12	0.003	255	0.061	1,815	0.432	35	0.008	(b)	(b)	462	8.099	4,141	0.986	2	0.0005	36	0.009	175	3.068	635	11.132	(b)	(b)	10,705	2.550	—	—	—	-	(b)	(b)
1937	3	0.001	175	0.043	6	0.001	7,810	1.913	916	0.224	8	0.002	216	0.053	1,764	0.432	42	0.010	(b)	(b)	453	8.257	4,798	1.175	13	0.003	95	0.023	228	4.156	793	14.455	(b)	(b)	8,455	2.071	—	—	—	-	(b)	(b)
1938	4	0.001	182	0.045	1	0.0002	7,611	1.878	1,049	0.259	5	0.001	191	0.047	1,829	0.451	16	0.004	282(c)	0.278	489	8.998	3,962	0.978	12	0.003	122	0.030	199	3.662	853	15.l696	(b)	(b)	8,093	1.997	—	—	—	—	1,891	1.867
1939	3	0.001	169	0.045	3	0.001	3,671	0.974	268	0.071	11	0.003	98	0.026	1,388	0.368	17	0.005	1,303	0.346	408	8.067	3,733	0.990	3	0.001	95	0.025	163	3.223	704	13.919	(b)	(b)	5,677	1.506	—	—	—	—	(c) 10,537	2.795
1940	3	0.001	839	0.274	6	0.002	1,844	0.601	161	0.052	8	0.003	158	0.052	1,076	0.351	16	0.005	5,447	1.776	303	7.096	2,688	0.876	3	0.001	17	0.006	155	3.630	472	11.054	(b)	(b)	2,498	0.814	—	—	—	-	669	0.218
1941	1	0.0004	706	0.298	2	0.001	2,179	0.921	610	0.258	10	0.004	210	0.089	1,171	0.495	13	0.005	11,039	4.667	185	6.668	2,518	1.064	5	0.002	36	0.015	94	3.388	340	12.255	(b)	(b)	2,372	1.003	—	—	—	—	7,944	3.358
1942	1	0.0004	341	0.142	1	0.0004	1,813	0.756	749	0.312	3	0.001	67	0.028	1,034	0.431	16	0.007	19,987	8.333	210	5.180	2,246	0.936	1	0.0004	24	0.010	110	2.713	505	12.456	(b)	(b)	4,416	1.841	2	0.001	—	-	6,234	2.599
1943	4	0.002	231	0.093	1	0.0004	1,862	0.747	1,103	0.442	4	0.002	47	0.019	1,054	0.423	35	0.014	22,882	9.176	233	5.189	3,159	1.267	3	0.001	40	0.016	147	3.273	471	10.488	9,689	9.183	9,477	3.800	-	—	—	—	6,661	2.671
1944	—	—	195	0.079	2	0.001	1,126	0.459	1,558	0.634	4	0.002	38	0.015	924	0.376	78	0.032	7,499	3.054	211	4.762	2,252	0.917	2	0.001	18	0.007	172	3.882	387	8.734	[a) 16,4£0	6.698	4,153	1.691	2	0.001	—	—	7,144	2.909
1945	—	—	185	0.071	2	0.001	1,273	0.491	2,082	0.803	7	0.003	45	0.017	846	0.326	93	0.036	23,518	9.065	224	4.933	1,992	0.768	—	—	70	0.027	188	4.140	472	10.395	14,753	5.687	4,252	1.639	4	0.002	4	0.002	3,307	1.275

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(a) Rate per 1,000 live births. (b) Comparable figures not available for this period.
(c) Cases relate to last quarter only — Rates are adjusted on an annual basis.
(d) Cases relate to last 22 weeks only — Rates are adjusted on an annual basis.

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Table: Table 10—County of London—Notifiable infectious diseases—Annual number of notifications and numbers per 1,000 of population—1933-1945

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