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City of London 1928

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

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Table: STATISTICS OF NOTIFICATIONS AND REMOVALS TOHOSPITAL.

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........................
Diphtheria24...23l......l23
Scarlet Fever27l222...2...25
Enteric Fever (including Para-typhoid)........................
Puerperal Fever........................
Puerperal Pyrexia........................
Erysipelas5l......22...3
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis........................
Acute Polio-myelitis........................
*Ophthalmia Neonatorum1l...............1
Malaria contracted abroad abroad........................
Acute Primary Pneu monia51......4......5
Acute Influenzal Pneu monia........................
Encephalitis Lethargica........................
Totals62445364l57
Chicken-pox1212...............12
Measles3421.........7
German Measles........................
Totals771647464l76

Table: 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 1928 compared with the figures for the previous five years:-

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 1928 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.
19236495.34.7
19242295.54.5
19254989.810.2
19269197.82.2
19276190.29.8
Average for the five years5793.76.3
19285196.04.0