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Southwark 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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SCARLET FEVER.
During the year under consideration 534 cases were notified, as
against 409 cases in 1923. The number of deaths from this disease
was 10.
TABLE 18.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.
Summary of Notifications during the period from the 31st December, 1923, to the 3rd January, 1925, in the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark.
| Age-periods | Notifications on Form A. | Notifications on Form B. | Number of Notifications on Form C. | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Primary Notifications. | Total Notifications on Form A. | Number of Primary Notifications. | Total Notifications on Form B. | Poor Law Institutions. | Sanatoria. | |||||||||||||||
| 0-1 | 1-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-20 | 20-25 | 25-35 | 35-45 | 45-55 | 55-65 | 65 & upwards | Total Primary Notifications. | Under 5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | Total Primary Notifications. | |||||
| Pulmonary Males | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 51 | 57 | 64 | 38 | 8 | 271 | 329 | — | - | — | — | 89 | 177 | |
| ,, Females | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 23 | 29 | 35 | 28 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 153 | 188 | — | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 37 | 79 |
| Non-Pulmonary Males | 1 | 18 | 24 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | — | 84 | 91 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 7 | 52 |
| ,, Females . | — | 18 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | — | — | 2 | 63 | 68 | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 39 |
Number of deaths from Scarlet Fever during the last ten years:—
In Southwark.
In London.
In Southwark.
In London.
1915
12
332
1920
5
207
1916
5
146
1921
13
290
1917
7
85
1922
17
299
1918
14
118
1923
4
112
1919
4
145
1924
10
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Of the 534 cases notified in the present year, as many as 527 were
removed to hospital, i.e., 98.7 per cent., as against 98.3 per cent. for
last year.
The deaths in the 534 cases sent to hospital numbered 10, a
mortality of l.8 per cent.
The 7 cases nursed at home, all recovered.
The annual rate of mortality was 0.05.
DIPHTHERIA.
There is still an upward tendency in regard to the number of cases
of Diphtheria notified during the year under consideration.