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City of London 1927

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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Table: TABLE II.—I nfectious D isease.

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disease.	1918.	1919.	1920.	1921.	1922.	1923.	1924.	1925.	1926.	Mean Annual No. for 10 years ending 31st Dec., 1927.	1927.
(a) Cases Reported:
Cholera (including suspected cases)	—	9	10	—	1	3	1	—	26	5.6	6
Yellow Fever (ditto)	-	—	2	—	—	—	—	—	2	4	—
Plague (ditto)	12	20	6	8	9	4	1	3	1	6.4	—
Small-pox	16	43	27	9	17	12	17	27	20	20.2	14
Scarlet Fever	8	4	11	28	11	6	8	22	6	12.1	17
Diphtheria	23	25	21	20	44	29	23	23	13	23.4	13
Enteric Fever	26	77	51	44	29	49	42	49	50	45.3	36
Measles	256	52	513	60	20	82	46	77	94	122.1	21
German Measles	4	7	12	8	—	19	18	14	7	9.4	5
Erysipelas	—	3	3	1	—	2	5	2	5	2.3	2
Typhus Fever	—	—	1	1	1	—	—	—	—	.3	—
Continued Fever	2	—	1	4	2	4	2	_	4	2.1	2
Eelapsing Fever	19	—	—	—	—	2	—	—	—	2.1	—
Tuberculosis:—
Pulmonary	38	51	67	54	44	83	90	82	86	67.7	82
Other kinds	20	35	2	2	4	6	6	11	2	8.9	1
Other diseases (including Chicken-Pox)	2,552	1,887	766	310	348	336	319	363	471	801.9	667
Total	2,976	2,213	1,493	549	530	637	578	673	787	1,130.2	866
(b) Treated in Port Sanitary Hospital:
Cholera (including suspected cases)	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	.1	-
Yellow Fever (ditto)	—	—	—	—	—	-	-	-	-	-	-
Plague (ditto)	12	10	2	1*	—	—	-	-	-	2.5	-
Small-pox	1	13	10	—	—	3	-	3	5	3.8	3*
Scarlet Fever	5	1	3	13	2	—	6	16	8	5.9	5*
Diphtheria	—	1	4	3	3	1	1	4	2	2.5	6
Enteric Fever	7	42	11	13	9	10	13	6	14	14.1	6
Measles	2	—	35	6	5	1	8	7	9	8.0	7†
Erysipelas	—	—	1	—	—	2	1	-	2	.6	-
Typhus Fever	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-	-	-	-
Continued Fever	6	—	1	3	—	2	-	-	-	1.2	-
Other diseases (including Chicken-pox)	24	22	13	9	14	10	31	39	23	20.5	20
Total	57	90	80	48	33	29	60	75	63	58.2	47
*Includes one contact. † Icludes two contacts.

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TABLE III.
Return of the number of cases of Infectious Disease notified to the Ministry of
Health during the year 1927, and of deaths from the diseases notified.

Table: This Table includes all cases actually introduced or occurring within the Port, but does not include cases reported as having occurred on vessels during the voyage which had either recovered or been removed from the vessel before arrival at Gravesend.

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This Table includes all cases actually introduced or occurring within the Port, but does not include cases reported as having occurred on vessels during the voyage which had either recovered or been removed from the vessel before arrival at Gravesend.

	Number.	Deaths.		Number.	Deaths.
Small-pox	3	—	Brought forward	52	5
Scarlet Fever	10	—	Relapsing Fever	-	-
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)	10	-	Continued Fever	2	-
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)	10	-	Trench Fever	-	-
Enteric Fever (Typhoid and Paratyphoid)	13	2	Dysentery	7	-
Enteric Fever (Typhoid and Paratyphoid)	13	2	Ophthalmia Neonatorum	-	-
Pneumonia	15	3	Erysipelas	4	-
Cholera	—	—	Tuberculosis—	-	-
Plague	—	—	Respiratory	58	6
Puerperal Fever	—	—	Other kinds	1	-
Puerperal Pyrexia	—	—	Malaria	9	-
Acute Poliomyelitis	—	—	Chicken-pox	15	-
Acute Polioencephalitis	—	—	Measles (including German Measles)	7	-
Encephalitis Lethargica	1	—	Measles (including German Measles)	7	-
Typhus Fever	—	—	Whooping Cough	2	-
			Other diseases	153	_-
Carried forward	52	5		-	-
			Total	310	11

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Table: TABLE II.—I nfectious D isease.

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Table: This Table includes all cases actually introduced or occurring within the Port, but does not include cases reported as having occurred on vessels during the voyage which had either recovered or been removed from the vessel before arrival at Gravesend.