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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
Edmonton 1920
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Edmonton]
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Other forms-
Patients notified once 24
„ „ twice 5
,, ,, thrice 1
30
The notifications are thus analysed: —
| Pulmonary. | Other forms. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| Private Practitioners (A) | 40 | 37 | - | — |
| S.M.I. (B) | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Sanatoria (C and D) | 157 | 54 | 7 | 3 |
| Infirmary (A, C and D) | 7 | 8 | 2 | 4 |
| District Medical Officer | — | — | — | — |
| Hospitals (A, C and D) | — | 3 | 2 | |
| Other Institutions (A, C and D) | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| Dispensary (No. 1 and other areas) | 72 | 47 | 8 | 5 |
| Voluntary | — | 1 | — | — |
| 281 | 152 | 22 | 15 | |
| 433 | 37 | |||
Scholars.—Seven children—four boys and three girls—were notified by
the School Medical Inspector during the year as suffering from tuberculosis,
two boys and two girls from pulmonary tuberculosis, and two boys and a girl
from other forms of tubercle.
measles.
There were six deaths, compared with 10, 7 and 17, in 1919-18-17. This
number is equal to a death-rate of 0.08 per 1,000 living, compared with 0.13
last year. The rate was 0.19 in England and Wales, 0.22 in London, and 0.22
in the 96 Great Towns (including London).
Two occurred in the first age-period (under one year), two in the second
period (one and under two years), one in the third (two and under five years)'
and one between five and fifteen years of age. There was none in the Infirmary.
I received notifications about 93 cases—80 being defined as English and
13 as Rubella (formerly "German measles"). No cases were notified amongst
residents or strangers at the North Middlesex Hospital.