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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Deptford 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The total number of cases of notifiable infectious disease was
below that of the previous year. There was once again a large number
of cases of measles which accounted for more than two-thirds of the
total notifications, but no deaths have been ascribed to this disease.
The incidence of Sonne Dysentery reported last year as occurring
during the months of March to June did not re-occur, only 7 cases of
dysentery and 5 of food poisoning being reported.
Scarlet fever showed an increase this year, but they were mainly cases of a mild nature and in general were treated at home.
| 0-1years | 1-2 years | 2-5 years | 5-15 years | 15-25 years | 25-45 years | 45-65 years | over 65 years | Total | Deaths | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| Meningococcal Inf. | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 7 | 5 | 14 | 17 | 33 | 59 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 140 | ||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 | 11 | 16 | |||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Dysentery | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Acute Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 47* | ||||||||
| Measles | 12 | 23 | 89 | 92 | 115 | 109 | 203 | 203 | 1 | 2 | 849 | |||||||
| Whooping Cough | 10 | 7 | 19 | 20 | 15 | 20 | 16 | 31 | 2 | 140 | 1 | |||||||
| Scabies | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Zymotic Enteritis | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 10 | |||||||||||||
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorium | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 28 | 34 | 117 | 118 | 147 | 149 | 253 | 296 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1193 | |
No cases of smallpox, anthrax, para-typhoid fever, typhoid fever, diphtheria, or cerebrospinal
meningitis.
*Includes deaths from all forms of pneumonia.
Tuberculosis
The new Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1952, came into
force on the 1st May, 1952.
Although the new regulations no longer require that a register
should be kept, the register is maintained in almost the same form as
before.
All new cases in the Borough, whether or not they are transferred
from other areas, are visited by the Sanitary Inspectors in order to
ascertain the housing conditions and to see if any improvements can, or
should, be effected.