Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922.

  • Holborn (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
1923
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1922. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    39 Not only is vaccination easy to evade, but the law, as at present operating, does not compel vaci-ination or re-vaccination of actual contacts. The following Table, kindly supplied by the Vaccination Officer of the Holborn Union gives information respecting vaccination in the Borough of Holborn:— Total Number of Births Vaccinated Died before Vaccination Cons. Objectors Insus ceptible Postponed by Medical Certificate Removed Temporarily Unaccounted for IIOLBOKN SUK-UISTltlCT: July to December, 1921 146 51 13 23 1 18 21 19 and January to June, 1922 159 61 14 24 0 17 23 20 303 112 27 47 1 35 41 39 St. Giles and Uloomsbuhy Sub-District: July to December, 1921. and 89 39 6 12 0 11 9 12 January to June, 1922 101 41 6 27 0 9 10 8 100 80 12 39 0 20 19 20 Diphtheria. One hundred and eight notifications of diphtheria were received during the \ear at the following ages: — Under 1 year 1 1 to 5 years 30 5 ,, 15 ,, 49 15 ,, 25 10 25 „ 45 10 45 ,, 65 2 Of these 107 were removed to hospital. Eighteen cases were returned from the hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board certified as not suffering from diphtheria. Four of these were apparently carriers as diphtheria bacilli were found in the swabs taken before removal of the patients. Four deaths occurred. Ten secondary cases were notified, but as two of these were found not to be diphtheria the number of genuine secondary cases was only eight. A secondary case is one occurring in the same household as the primary case. There was one return case notified twelve days after the return of the original case Swabs were taken from the throat and nose of the original case after her return from hospital when she was found still to be harbouring diphtheria bacilli.
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