Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
38
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The following table shows the incidence of notifiable infectious disease during the year, and in the two preceding years:—
Disease. | Year. | ||
---|---|---|---|
1936 | 1937 | 1938 | |
Anthrax | 1 | ||
Cerebro-spinal Fever | 9 | 7 | 5 |
Diphtheria | 247 | 328 | 469 |
Dysentery | - | 97 | 20 |
Erysipelas | 92 | 95 | 82 |
*Measles | — | — | 11 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 18 | 15 | 27 |
Pneumonia | 200 | 240 | 258 |
Polio Myelitis | 2 | 11 | 19 |
Puerperal Fever | 2 | 6 | 2 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 35 | 42 | 45 |
Scarlet Fever | 868 | 634 | 533 |
Typhoid Fever | 6 | 13 | 2 |
Para-typhoid Fever | 6 | 6 | 3 |
*Whooping Cough | - | — | 76 |
*Notifiable from 1st October, 1938. |