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Walthamstow 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]

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Table: The Registrar-General gives the statistics for the 53 weeks ended 1st January, 1939, and these are given in the following table together with the case rates per 1,000 population both for England and Wales and for Walthamstow:—

The Registrar-General gives the statistics for the 53 weeks ended 1st January, 1939, and these are given in the following table together with the case rates per 1,000 population both for England and Wales and for Walthamstow:—

Disease.Scarlet Fever.Diphtheria.Enteric Fever.Pneumonia.Puerperal Pyrexia.Erysipelas.
Number2796521463576
Case Kate—
Walthamstow2.130.490.011.110.260.58
England and Wales2.411.580.031.10(Not available)0.40

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The rate for Puerperal Pyrexia is better expressed in relation
to the number of births (i.e. live and still-births) registered than
to population. When calculated on this basis the rate is:—
Walthamstow 20.8
England and Wales 14.42
Per cent. | Deaths
Total Removed removed per cent.
Disease. notified. to to Deaths. | of cases
Hospital. Hospital. notified.
Scarlet Fever 281 247 87.9 Nil Nil
Diphtheria 65 63 96.9 2 3.0
Enteric Fever 2 2 100 Nil Nil
Pneumonia 147 73 49.6 88 59.8
Puerperal Pyrexia 35 7 20 1 2.8
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 4 2 50 1 25.0
(enteritis)
Erysipelas 76 27 35.5 Not a classified
cause of death
Cerebro-spinalMeningitis 3 3 100 2 66.6
Encephalitis Lethargica 3 3 100 2 66.6
Measles (under 5 years) 772 95 12.3 5 0.6
Dysentery .. ..23 10 43.4 Nil Nil
Tuberculosis 164 206* — 85 51.7
*This figure also includes cases notified during previous years.
Infectious Diseases Clinic.—The weekly clinic at 2 p.m. on
Tuesdays was continued, and all children of school age who had
been in contact with cases of infectious diseases were seen prior to
their return to school.
As in previous years, all children discharged from the Isolation
Hospital or after home isolation for infectious diseases were seen,
and particular care was taken to refer all cases with any suspicion of
rheumatism or of cardiac defect to the next rheumatism clinic.