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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 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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| 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 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Diphtheria | 11 | 1 | 6 | l | .... | l | 2 | 8 |
| Scarlet Fever | 13 | .... | 11 | l | .... | l | .... | 12 |
| Enteric Fever (including Para-typhoid) | 2 | .... | 1 | .... | .... | .... | 1 | 1 |
| Puerperal Fever | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Erysipelas | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Acute Polio-myelitis | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | *2 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 2 |
| Measles | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Rubella | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Malaria contracted abroad | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 6 | 2 | .... | .... | 4 | .... | .... | 6 |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 | .... | 1 | .... | .... | .... | 1 | 1 |
| Totals | 36 | 3 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 30 |
| Chicken-pox | 2 | 2 | .... | .... | .... | .... | .... | 2 |
| Totals | 38 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 32 |
The following is a return of infectious diseases which have occurred in the City of London, exclusive of Tuberculosis, Measles, Rubella, Malaria, Pneumonia, Ophthalmia Neonatorum and Chicken-pox, with the percentages of such cases removed to hospitals for treatment or nursed at home during 1924 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. | |||
| 1919 | 41 | 90.2 | 9.8 | |
| 1920 | 74 | 91.9 | 8.1 | |
| 1921 | 131 | 95.4 | 4.6 | |
| 1922 | 77 | 94.8 | 5.2 | |
| 1923 | 64 | 95.3 | 4.7 | |
| Average for the five years | 77 | 93.5 | 6.5 | |
| 1924 | 22 | 95.5 | 4.5 | |
| * Patients recovered and suffered no impairment of vision. | ||||