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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

City of London 1927

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

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Table: TABLE XXII.Form C.

TABLE XXII.

Form C.

Disease.No. of Cases during 1927.Average No. of Cases for last five years.
Cholera——
Plague—.4
Yellow Fever——
Small-pox22.4
Scarlet Fever119.2
Diphtheria918.2
Enteric Fever1318.8
Measles511.4
German Measles22.4
Erysipelas—2.0
Continued Fever21.0
Pulmonary Tuberculosis3735.0
Tuberculosis (other kinds)—2.2
Influenza413.6
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis—.4
Dysentery86.0
Encephalitis Lethargica—.2
Malaria520.0
Chicken-pox3617.4
Remittent and Relapsing Fever—.2

Table: TABLE XXIII.Form D.

TABLE XXIII.

Form D.

Disease.No. of Cases during 1927.Average No. of Cases for last five years.
Cholera67.6
Plague—1.8
Yellow Fever—.4
Small-pox1213.2
Scarlet Fever62.6
Diphtheria82.8
Enteric Fever2326.2
Measles1652.6
German Measles310.2
Erysipelas21.2
Continued Fever—1.6
Pulmonary Tuberculosis4549.6
Tuberculosis (other kinds)13.0
Pneumonia3222.0
Influenza9846.2
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis1.2
Dysentery2221.2
Encephalitis Lethargica1.2
Malaria48130.0
Chicken-pox2525.2
Remittent and Relapsing Fever—.2

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One hesitates in drawing inferences from statistics unless these cover some
long period and large numbers, but Table XXII. distinctly suggests a lowering of the
ship-borne infectious disease rate, and this probably follows the incidence of
infectious disease throughout the world.
From Table XXIII. it might perhaps be inferred that the increased activity in
ports all over the world is reducing the number of cases which actually come through
to this country to be dealt with in the Port.