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 Willesden]
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RETURN CASES OF SCARLET FEVER.
Table No. 23.
T ABLE showing the number op return cases of scarlet fever
1905—10.
Table No. 23.
TABLE showing the Number of Return Cases of Scarlet Fever 1905-10, distributed as the primary cases gave rise respectively to 1, 2, 3, or 4 Return Cases.
Year. | No. of Infecting Cases giving rise to Return Cases. | No. of Infecting Cases giving rise to 1 Return Case. | No. of Infecting Cases giving rise to 2 Return Cases. | No. of Infecting Cases giving rise to 3 Return Cases. | No. of Infecting Cases giving rise to 4 Return Cases. | Total Cases of Scarlet fever notified. | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total No. of Infecting Cases. | Total No. of Return Cases during the year | |||||||||
Cases. | Incidence Rate per 1,000 of Population. | |||||||||
Oases. | Percentage of total Cases. | Cases. | Percent. age of total Cases. | |||||||
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | (6) | (7) | (8) | (9) | (10) | (11) |
1905 | 14 | 3.5 | 18 | 4.5 | 12 | 1 | - | 1 | 397 | 2.8 |
1906 | 23 | 3.6 | 26 | 4.1 | 20 | o o | - | 637 | 4.5 | |
1907 | 27 | 4.2 | 28 | 4.4 | 26 | 1 | - | - | 641 | 4.4 |
1908 | 51 | 6.9 | 70 | 9.5 | 37 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 737 | 5.0 |
1909 | 56 | 8.7 | 66 | 10.3 | 48 | 7 | - | 1 | 638 | 4.4 |
1910 | 15 | 4.7 | 21 | 6.7 | 10 | 4 | 1 | — | 314 | 2.0 |
Totals | 186 | 5.5 | 229 | 6.8 | 153 | 27 | 2 | 4 | 3,364 | 38 |
Table No. 24.
TABLE showing Return and Secondary Cases.
Year. | No. of Infecting Cases | No. of Return Cases. | No. of Cases occurring in houses Secondary to Return, cases not necessarily themselves Returns. |
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
1909 | 56 | 66 | 12 |
1910 | 15 | 21 | 0 |