[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch].

  • Hornchurch (London, England). Urban District Council.
Date:
[1935]
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    28 SECTION F. PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Summary of Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) during the year 1934. Disease Cases Notified Admitted to Hospital Total Deaths Smallpox 0 0 0 Scarlet Fever 226 123 2 Diphtheria 158 151 12 Enteric Fever (inc. Paratyphoid) 1 1 0 Puerperal Fever 1 1 1 Puerperal Pyrexia 5 2 1 Pneumonia 26 7 — Erysipelas 19 3 1 Cerebrospinal Fever 2 2 0 Malaria 1 1 0 Included in the above are 4 cases of Diphtheria and 4 cases of Scarlet Fever which occurred among the children in the Hornchurch Children's Home and were removed to a London County Council Hospital. The following table shows the number of notified cases of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria in stated age-groups:— Years Scarlet Fever Diphtheria Under 1 0 1 1 9 3 2 10 3 3 20 11 4 11 10 5—9 107 82 10—14 36 22 15—19 8 13 20—34 22 11 35—44 3 1 45—64 0 1 65 and upwards 0 0 226 158 Scarlet Fever. 226 cases of Scarlet Fever giving a rate of 4.3 per 1,000 of the popula tion were notified as compared with 209 and a rate of 5.4 in the year 1933. The case rate in England and Wales was 3.76. Most of the cases were mild in character. There were 2 deaths, one child aged 7 dying in hospital from nephritis and a male adult dying at home from septicaemia. The uncomplicated cases were detained in hospital about 28 days. Antiscarlet serum was administered to all severe cases and to other cases admitted early in the disease. The following table shows the number of cases notified in each ward during each month of the year