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City of London 1921

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]

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Table: NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.—In the following tables will be found particulars of certificates relating to cases of infectious disease forwarded under Sections 55 and 56 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and information as to the removal of patients to hospitals, infirmaries, &c. :—

NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES.—In the following tables will be found particulars of certificates relating to cases of infectious disease forwarded under Sections 55 and 56 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and information as to the removal of patients to hospitals, infirmaries, &c. :—

NAME 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.
Small-pox........................
Diphtheria43...16989l33
Scarlet Fever95l82334289
Enteric Fever1...1............1
Puerperal Fever........................
Erysipelas63......3......6
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis........................
Acute Polio-myelitis........................
*Ophthalmia Neonatorum21......1......2
Measles........................
Rubella........................
Malaria contracted abroad32......1......3
Acute Primary Pneumonia81......61...7
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia........................
Totals1588991222143141
Chicken-pox22...............2
Totals16010991222143143

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It will be seen from the foregoing that during the year, excluding Chicken-pox,
158 Certificates were received, including 14 duplicates and three in which the
diagnosis was subsequently found to be incorrect.
The total number of notifiable infectious diseases, excluding Tuberculosis,
Measles, Rubella, Malaria, Pneumonia and Chicken-pox, was 141, as compared with
79 last year; and, as stated, the number of cases of Scarlet Fever reported was 89.

Table: The following is a'return of infectious diseases notified in the City of London, exclusive of Tuberculosis, Measles, Rubella, Malaria, Pneumonia and Chicken-pox, with the percentages of such cases removed to hospitals for treatment or nursed at home during 1921 compared with the figures for the previous five years :—

The following is a'return of infectious diseases notified in the City of London, exclusive of Tuberculosis, Measles, Rubella, Malaria, Pneumonia and Chicken-pox, with the percentages of such cases removed to hospitals for treatment or nursed at home during 1921 compared with the figures for the previous five years :—

Year.Number of cases reported.Per cent. of cases reported.
Removal to Hospital.Treated at home.
19167094.35.7
19175194.15.9
19184288.111.9
19194190.29.8
19207491.98.1
Average for the five years55.691.78.3
192113195.44.6
* In one .of these cases the patient died at the Hospital to which it was removed for treatment. The other case was a mild one and the patient suffered no impairment of vision