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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
City of London 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
In the following Tables will be found particulars of certificates relating to cases of infectious disease notified under Sections 55 and 56 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and information as to the removal of patients to hospitals, infirmaries, &c.:—
| NATURE OF DISEASE. | Number of Certificates received. | Treated at Home. | Removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals. | Removed to the London Fever Hospital. | Treated at other Hospitals and Infirmaries. | Duplicate Certificates received. | Diagnosis subsequently found to be incorrect. | Net number of Cases. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 54 | 3 | 38 | ||||||
| — | 55 | |||||||
| — | — | 2 | — | |||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| — | — | 2 | — | 5 | ||||
| — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| — | — | — | — | — | ||||
| — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 18 | 6 | 112 | ||||||
| — | — | — | — | — | 23 | |||
| 12 | 6 | 135 |
*Chicken-pox was notifiable under Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, from 17th March until 30th June,
Voluntary notifications were accepted during the other part of the year.
It will be seen from the foregoing that during the year, excluding Chicken-pox,
136 Certificates were received, including 18 “duplicates,” and six in which the
diagnosis was subsequently found to be incorrect.
The total number of cases of “notifiable” infectious diseases was, therefore, 112, as
compared with 128 for the previous year. The total number of cases of Scarlet Fever
reported was 55, as compared with 80 last year.
The following is a Return of infectious diseases notified, exclusive of Chicken-pox, in the City of London, with the percentages of such cases removed to hospitals for treatment or nursed at home during 1915, compared with the figures for the previous five years—
| Year. | Number of cases reported. | Per cent, of cases reported. | |
| Removed to Hospital. | Treated at Home. | ||
| 1910 | 54 | 79.6 | 20.4 |
| 1911 | 67 | 83.6 | 16.4 |
| 1912 | 66 | 84.8 | 15.2 |
| 1913 | 88 | 94.3 | 5.7 |
| 1914 | 128 | 93.8 | 6.2 |
| Average for previous five years. | 81 | 87.2 | 12.8 |
| 1915 | 112 | 94.6 | 5.4 |