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Islington 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington]
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39 [1934
A return of attacks o( the disease during the past ten years is given in the following statement :—
| 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | Average 10 yrs. 1924-33 | 1934 | Total Deaths, 1924-33. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Quarter | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | o | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 21 |
| 2nd ,, | ; - | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 26 |
| 3rd „ | 2 | 2 | 3 | — | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| 4th „ | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| Year | 6 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 19 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 75 |
The deaths during the year numbered 4, and were equal to a rate of 3G per
cent. of the cases notified.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES (LONDON) REGULATIONS, 1927.
Malaria, Dysentery, Acute Primary Pneumonia and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
Schedule dealing with Typhus, Relapsing and Enteric Fevers.
Regulations dealing- with these diseases came into force on the 7th January,
1919.
Dysentery , and the alterations of the Regulations, to suit London, were fully
dealt with in the Annual Report for 1927, pages 34 and 35. During the past five
years the following cases were notified by medical practitioners to the Medical
Officer of Health.
1930 1931 1932 1933 1934
Malaria Nil 1 2 Nil Nil
Dysentery Nil 6 15 5 5
Acute Primary Pneumonia 323 370 254 179 189
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 36 115 87 125 71
Total 359 492 358 309 265
ISLINGTON (CHICKEN-POX) REGULATIONS, 1930.
The regulations came into operation on the 24th March, 1930, and from that
time to the end of this year 2,351 cases had been notified. In 1934 the notifications
were 423.
DYSENTERY.
Five cases were notified during the year, but there was no common source of
infection. They were isolated cases occurring throughout the year.
GLANDERS, ANTHRAX AND HYDROPHOBIA IN MAN.
Order under Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1921, by the
London County Council. (Came into operation on the
26th April, 1909.)
No case w as recorded during the year.
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica and Acute Polio-Encephalitis.
These diseases became notifiable under an Order of the Local Government
Board on the 1st January, 1919. During the year 2 cases of Acute Encephalitis
Lethargica were known, and were notified ; no deaths were registered. No cases
of Polio-encephalitis were notified, and no deaths were registered.