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City of London 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]
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APPENDIX III.
Return of the number of cases of Infectious Disease notified to the Ministry of
Health during the year 1931, and of deaths from the diseases notified.
This Table includes all cases actualy 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 | — | — | Brought forward | 54 | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 6 | — | Continued Fever | — | — |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 14 | Dysentery | 7 | — | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — | |||
| Enteric Fever (Typhoid and Paratyphoid) | 8 | 1 | Erysipelas | — | — |
| Tuberculosis— | |||||
| Pneumonia | 26 | — | Respiratory | 90 | 6 |
| Cholera | — | — | Other kinds | — | 1 |
| Plague | — | — | Malaria | 13 | — |
| Puerperal Fever | — | — | Chicken-pox | 20 | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | Measles (including German | ||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | — | — | Measles | 2 | — |
| Acute Polioencephalitis | — | — | Whooping Cough | 4 | — |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | Other Diseases | 26 | — |
| Typhus Fever | — | — | - | - | |
| Relapsing Fever | — | — | |||
| Total | 219 | 8 | |||
| Carried forward | 54 | 1 | - | ||
APPENDIX IV.—Cholera.
| Date. 1981. | Name of Vessel. | Where from. | No. of Cases. | Passenger or Crew Rating. | How dealt with. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 11 | ss. " Malancha " | Calcutta | 1 | Crew | Landed at Colombo. |
| APPENDIX Y.—Small-pox. | |||||
| Date. 1931. | Name of Vessel. | Where from. | No. of Cases. | Passenger or Crew Rating. | How dealt with. |
| Feb. 8 | ss. " Matheran " | Calcutta | 1 | Crew | Landed at Suez. |
| ,, 22 | ss. " Matra " | 3 | 2 landed at Madras. | ||
| 1 landed at Aden. | |||||
| „ 23 | ss. " Clan MacTaggart " | >> | 3 | 2 landed at Suez. | |
| 1 landed at Algiers. | |||||
| April 4 | ss. " City of Hong Kong | 6 | " | 1 landed at Madras. | |
| 4 landed at Suez. | |||||
| 1 landed at Malta. | |||||
| „ 7 | ss. " Clan MacBrayne " | Bombay | 1 | Landed at Cochin. | |
| Total | 14 | (Crew.) | |||
| APPENDIX VI.—Scarlet Fever. | |||||
| Date. 1931. | Name of Vessel. | Where from. | No. of Cases. | Passenger or Crew Rating. | How dealt with. |
| Mar. 17 | Houseboat "Rosa John | " Leigh-on-Sea | 1 | Resident | Removed to Southend Borough Sanatorium. |
| April 8 | ss. "Rotorua " | New Zealand | 1 | Crew | Admitted to Seamen's Hospital, Royal Albert Dock. |
| „ 20 | Houseboat"Rosa John | " Lying in Leigh Creek. | 1 | Resident | Admitted to Southend Borough Sanatorium. |
| „ 27 | Vessel (not known) | — | 1 | Crew | Admitted to Ilford Isolation Hospital (from Seamen's Hos |
| Sept. 19 | ss. "Viceroy of India" | Madeira | 1 | Passenger | pital, Royal Albert Dock). Admitted to Port Sanitary Hos |
| Oct. 22 | ss. "New Lambton" | Coastwise | 1 | Crew | pital, Denton. Admitted to Brook Hospital, Woolwich. |
| Dec. 2 | ss. "Manora" | Calcutta | 1 - | Passenger (3 Crew.) | Landed at Port Said. |
| Total | 7 | (2 Passengers. | |||
| - | (2 Residents.) | ||||