Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Marylebone, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE 15.
Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during 1940.
Notifiable Disease. | Cases notified in whole District. | Cases notified in each locality. | Cases removed to hospital from each locality. | Cases isolated at home. | Total deaths. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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At all ages | At Ages-years. | All Souls. | St. Mary. | Christ Church | St. John. | Totals. | All Souls. | St. Mary. | Christ Church | St. John. | Totals. | ||||||||||||||
-1 | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 35- | 45- | 65- | ||||||||||||||
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- |
Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- |
Diphtheria, including Membranous Croup | 25 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | - | - | 1 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 25 | - | 1 |
Erysipelas | 26 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 26 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 7 | - |
Scarlet Fever | 33 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 7 | 33 | 2 | 5 | 16 | 4 | 27 | 6 | - |
Typhus Fever. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Enteric Fever. | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- |
Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal Fever | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | 5 | - | 2 | 3 | - | 5 | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | 6 | 2 | - | ||
Plague. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Glanders | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Farcy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | --- |
Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Co robro-Spinal Fever | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 12 | _ | 5 |
Tuberculosis- | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pulmonary | 99 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 9 | 40 | 25 | 20 | 3 | 27 | 30 | 30 | 12 | 99 | 15 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 42 | 57 | 34 |
Non- Pulmonary | 14 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 8 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Polio-Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | - |
Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Pneumonia | 31 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 31 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 14 | 65 |
Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | -- | - | - | --- | 1 | - |
Dysentery | 17 | - | _ | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 12 | 1 | - | 16 | - | 1 | 17 | - | -- | - | - | - | 17 | - | ||
Measles | 120 | 8 | 18 | 13 | 20 | 16 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 9 | - | 14 | 13 | 87 | 6 | 120 | 8 | 4 | 63 | 1 | 76 | 44 | 1 | ||
Whooping Cough | 10 | 3 | 2 | 3 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 4 | - | 10 | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | 7 | - |
Totals | 407 | 19 | 24 | 32 | 19 | 26 | 30 | 10 | 25 | 101 | 44 | 52 | 25 | 98 | 95 | 174 | 40 | 407 | 52 | 59 | 118 | 19 | 248 | 159 | 114 |
* This figure is for all forms of pneumonia, including acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pnoumonia which alone are notifiable. |