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Marylebone 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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force in the Borough, and also compulsorily, in the case of persons coming
under the Poor Law Medical Officers, under the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1908. Other infectious diseases, e.g., measles, whooping cough and
diarrhoea are not notifiable.
Notifications.—The total number of notifications for 1909 was 1,066, as
compared with 873 in 1908 and 695 in 1907. The increase for the year is due
chiefly to an increase in the number of notifications received in the case of
phthisis (334 cases) brought about as a result of the working of the Public
Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations.
Full particulars with regard to the notifiable diseases is given in the Local
Government Board Table III., which will be found at page 72.
The notification rate (proportion to population of notified cases of infectious
disease) was 6*9 per 1,000.
Of the cases reported, a very large number were removed to hospital for treatment, viz.:—
| Diphtheria | 103 or 94.5 | per cent, of the cases notified |
| Erysipelas | 43 or 32.0 | „ „ „ |
| Scarlet fever | 443 or 95.5 | |
| Enteric fever | 16 or 72.7 | „ „ „ |
| Cerebro spinal fever | 6 or 100.0 | „ „ „ |
| Phthisis | 144 or 43.1 | „ „ „ |
| The total amount expended on notification fees during the year was £73. 5s. 6d., the cost per thousand of the population being 11s. 7d. | ||
The following table shows the amounts paid in fees for notifications since 1901, and the cost per thousand of population:—
| Year. | Amounts paid to Medical Practitioners. | Cost per 1,000 of Population. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 98 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 10 |
| 1902 | 152 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1903 | 85 | 11 | 6 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 1904 | 99 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 |
| 1905 | 61 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 9 | 6 |
| 1906 | 74 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 8 |
| 1907 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 7 |
| 1908 | 70 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| 1909 | 73 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 7 |