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30 Report of the Medical Officer of Health for 1931.
124 of the cases were removed to hospital.
1,915 visits were made by the Sanitary Inspectors and Health
Visitors to houses where cases of Whooping Cough occurred,
and 142 premises were disinfected.
Influenza.
The number of deaths from Influenza was 97 compared
with 22 in 1930, 237 in 1929, 41 in 1928, 136 in 1927 and 56 in 1926.
The death-rate was .27 per 1,000.
Influenzal Pneumonia and Acute Primary Pneumonia.
92 cases of acute Influenzal Pneumonia and 463 cases of
acute Primary Pneumonia were notified. Ten of the former
and 69 of the latter died.
The total number of deaths credited to all forms of Pneumonia
during the year was 191, compared with 207 in 1930, 331
in 1929, 246 in 1928, 239 in 1927, 217 in 1926, 181 in 1925, 233 in
1924, 189 in 1923 and 236 in 1922.
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Five cases of this disease occurred. Three of them
terminated fatally. A further 10 deaths were registered as
being caused by Meningitis. Four other cases of this disease
were notified, but proved not to be cerebro-spinal meningitis.
Polio-myelitis and Polio-encephalitis.
Three cases and no death occurred.
Two children were admitted during the year for treatment at
Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, under the scheme provided
by the L.C.C.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
Two cases of this disease occurred and one death was registered.
Three other cases were notified, but as they were found, after
further investigation, to be suffering from some other disease,
they are not included in these figures.