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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

Marylebone 1911

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: Reasons for Disinfection.

Reasons for Disinfection.

Compulsorily Notifiable Infectious Diseases.Phthisis.Measles.Vermin.Other causes.Totals.
January354161864
February24748...786
March382055...2115
April25323...2374
May1411104746
June28442240
July32782453
August35161......52
September1043...25114
October941541...114
November7011...195105
December6012...5885
5591131693671948

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BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS.
The number of specimens from doubtful cases of typhoid fever, diphtheria
and phthisis examined for the Council by Dr. Eastes at the Laboratory of Pathology
and Public Health, 38, New Cavendish Street, is greater by over 100 than in 1910.
The increase is almost entirely, as shown in the following table which gives
particulars as to the number of cases examined, and compares the results with those of
the previous year, in connection with phthisis.

Table: For the increase in the numbers in this disease the greater attention directed to the importance of diagnosis by the new regulations is probably responsible.

For the increase in the numbers in this disease the greater attention directed to the importance of diagnosis by the new regulations is probably responsible.

1910.1911.
Positive.Negative.Total.Positive.Negative.Total.
Typhoid Fever51116111121
Diphtheria278010732111143
Phthisis288411253148201
Totals6O17523586270356