[Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City.
- Manchester (England). City Council. n 88637066.
- Date:
- 1927
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1927] / Medical Officer of Health, Manchester City. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES OTHER THAN WHOOPING COUGH AND TUBERCULOSIS. The diseases included in the Infectious Disease (Notification) Acts, 1889 and i8< regulations under the Public Health Acts, are as follows:—Smallpox, Scarlet I Diphtheria, Typhus Fever, Enteric or Typhoid Fever, Relapsing Fever, Continued ] Puerperal Fever, Puerperal Pyrexia, Erysipelas, and Asiatic Cholera, to which have added Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Cerebro-Spinal Fever, Poliomyelitis, Polio-Encepl and Encephalitis-Lethargica, Malaria, Dysentery, Trench Fever, Acute Primary Pneun and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia. The following cases were notified in 1927, an numbers are compared with the average of the previous ten years:— 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 Mean Smallpox . 14 4 4 2 2 Chickenpox. 1,153 1,936 2,443 2,860 3,354 3.574 4,105 5,783 3,151 Scarlet Fever . 829 779 1,758 3,829 5,400 3,618 1,814 1,784 2,869 2,259 2,494 Diphtheria. 581 518 471 914 1,002 805 536 570 1,040 1,145 758 Typhus Fever . 1 Enteric Fever . 86 68 90 54 74 36 50 103 65 30 66 Relapsing Fever. •• Puerperal Fever. 54 66 159 146 138 130 130 115 179 174 129 Puerperal Pyrexia . -• 32 32 Erysipelas . 228 243 392 382 385 379 294 284 412 378 338 Ophthalmia Neonatorum .. 315 307 344 392 227 263 227 336 266 218 290 Cerebro-Spinal Fever. 7 5 11 11 3 8 3 11 9 12 8 Poliomyelitis. 14 10 8 7 7 7 4 7 12 12 9 Polio-Encephalitis . 4 1 1 4 2 1 Excephalitis-Lethargica 10 19 31 9 36 244 78 91 65 Malaria. 312 172 38 19 16 3 4 1 71 Dysentery . 6 9 8 3 2 2 1 2 4 Trench Fever . 1 1 1 1 Primary Pneumonia. 410 620 1,578 2.268 2,067 2.203 2.200 1,876 1,653 Influenzal Pneumonia 816 205 218 487 426 447 351 313 408 Measles. 10,613 8.448 8,420 10.635 1,135 19,614 3,481 18,349 7,941 10,953 9,959 Rubeola . 621 675 186 179 453 177 94 224 2,107 1,128 584 Pemphigus Neonatorum . . . . 1 83 128 106 13,349 11,119 14,565 19,516 13,141 30,689 12,534 28,257 21,726 24, S39j 20,126 In 1900 Erysipelas was made notifiable, in 1910 Ophthalmia Neonatorum, in 1912 Cerebro-Spinal Fever Poliomyelitis, and in 1919 the diseases which first appear under that year. Measles were made notifiable in 1 as was also Rubeola. From 1919 (September) Chickcnpox has been notifiable, and in 1925 (September) Pemphigus Neonate was made notifiable. Puerperal Pyrexia was made notifiable on October 1st, 1926.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29785480_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
