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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 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London, City of ]
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STATISTICS OF NOTIFICATIONS AND REMOVALS TO HOSPITAL.
NAME OF DISEASE.
Number of
Notifications
received.
Treated at
Home.
Removed
to the
L.C.C.
Special
Hospitals.
Removed
to the
London
Fever
Hospital.
Treated at
other
Hospitals
and
Institutions.
Duplicate
Certificates
received.
Diagnosis
subsequently
found to be
incorrect.
Net number
of Cases.
Small-pox
1
....
l
....
....
....
....
l
Diphtheria
17
....
15
....
....
2
l
14
Scarlet Fever
17
....
17
....
....
....
....
17
Enteric Fever (including
Para-typhoid)
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
Puerperal Fever
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
Puerperal Pyrexia
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
Erysipelas
7
2
....
....
4
1
....
6
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
Acute Polio-myelitis
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
Malaria contracted
abroad
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
Acute Primary Pneumonia
14
3
....
....
11
....
....
14
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
1
1
....
....
....
....
....
1
Encephalitis Lethargica
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
Amoebic Dysentery
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
Chicken-pox.
37
37
....
....
....
....
....
37
Totals
94
43
33
....
15
3
1
90
Measles
3
1
1
1
....
....
l
2
German Measles
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
....
Totals
97
44
34
1
15
3
2
92
The following is a return of infectious diseases which have occurred in the City of
London, exclusive of Tuberculosis, Measles, Pneumonia and Chicken-pox, with the
percentages of such cases removed to hospitals for treatment or nursed at home during 1931
compared with the figures for the previous five years:—
In no case was it necessary to apply for an order for compulsory removal to hospital.
Year.
Number of
actual cases.
Per cent, of actual cases reported.
Removed to Hospital. Treated at home.
1926 91 97.8 2'.2
1927 61 90.2 9.8
1928 51 96.0 4.0
1929 60 90.0 10.0
1930 58 93.1 6.9
*
Average for the five years 64.2 93.4 6.6
1931 38 94.7 5.3
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