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City of London 1927

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

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Table: STATISTICS OF NOTIFICATIONS AND REMOVALS TO HOSPITAL.

STATISTICS OF NOTIFICATIONS AND REMOVALS TO HOSPITAL.

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................................
Diphtheria18....18............216
Sjarlet Fever039l332l2....37
Enteric Fever (including Para.typhoid)................................
Puerperal Fever................................
Puerperal Pyrexia2l........l........2
Erysipelas44....................4
Cerebro.spinal Meningitis................................
Acute Polio.myelitis................................
* Ophthalmia Neonatorum1............l........1
Measles................................
Rubella................................
Malaria contracted abroad................................
Acute Primary Pneumonia102........8........10
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia1............1........1
Encephalitis Lethargica2............2........2
Totals778512142273
Chicken.pox2929....................29
Totals106375121422102

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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 1927 compared with the figures for the previous five years:.
Number of Per cent, of cases reported.
Year. cases reported. Removed to Hospital. Treated at home.
1922 77 94.8 5'2
1923 64 95.3 4.7
1924 22 95.5 4 5
1925 49 89.8 10 2
1926 91 97.8 2.2
Average for the five years 61 94.6 5.4
1927 61 90.2 9.8
*This was a prematurely born child (6J months). Vision unimpaired, but child died.