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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 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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The percentages of the totals and the actual numbers were as follows:—
| Erysipelas | 37 or 44.4 „ „ |
| Scarlet Fever | 256 or 98.8 „ „ |
| Enteric Fever | 10 or 90.9 „ „ |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 or 100.0 „ „ |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 or 26.3 „ „ |
| Puerperal Fever | 4 or 80.0 „ „ |
| Polio Myelitis | 1 or 33.3 „ „ |
| Phthisis | 147 or 21.3 „ „ |
The cost of carrying out the requirements of the section relating to notification of
infectious diseases for the year was £\ 16 lis. 9d., equal to £l Os. Id. per 1,000 of
the population.
The cost and rate per 1,000 for each year since 1901, are shown in the following table:—
| Year. | Amounts paid to Medical Practitioners. | Cost per 1,000 of Population. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| 1901 | 98 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 10 |
| 1902 | 152 | 5 | 0 | l | 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 |
| 1910 | 74 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 10 |
| 1911 | 124 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 14 | 10 |
| 1912 | 116 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Discharge Notices.
The number of certificates received from the Metropolitan Asylums Board
regarding the return of patients sent to hospital with infectious diseases was 347,
and referred to 551 cases. These figures are higher than in 1911, for the reason that
amongst the patients returned were a number who had been admitted on account of
measles and whooping cough. Visits were paid to all these cases by the Inspectors,
and advice given as to the date of the return of children to school, and the advisability
of obtaining treatment for and isolation of any suffering from any sequel of a disease.
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.
Diphtheria was very little more prevalent in 1912 than in 1911, 147 as against 133
cases in the latter year having been notified.
Of the 147, 7 proved fatal, the case mortality rate being 4'8 per cent.
The number of cases per 1,000 of the population was slightly higher than in
1911, 1.26 as against 1.19.