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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
Lewisham 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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SECTION "F" - PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES
PRINCIPAL NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Other than Tuberculosis).
Number of Notified Cases (corrected for revised diagnosis) during the year 1946 with comparative figures for the previous six years. It should be borne in mind that some of the war-time figures were considerably affected by evacuation of population
| Diseases | Number of cases notified | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 1945 | 1944 | 1943 | 1942 | 1941 | 1940 | |
| Cerebro-spinal fever | 11 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 25 | 31 | 30 |
| Continued & relapsing fever | 1 | - | - | ||||
| Diarrhoea and enteritis | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Diphtheria | 8 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 53 | 82 | 78 |
| Dysentery | 57 | 31 | 65 | 23 | 34 | 13 | 7 |
| Encephalitis lethargica (aiute) | 1 | - | - | - | - | ||
| Enteric or typhoid fever | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 |
| Frysipelan | 34 | 50 | 86 | 57 | 52 | 60 | 53 |
| Hydrophobia | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| Influenza | - | - | - | - | |||
| malaria | 15 | - | - | - | - | ||
| measles | 1307 | 462 | 688 | 1270 | 858 | 726 | 119 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 7 |
| Pneumonia | 108 | 71 | 110 | 176 | l03 | 148 | 113 |
| Polioencephalitis .(acute) | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Poliomyelitis (acute) | 5 | - | - | 5 | 1 | 2 | |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 31 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 27 | 19 | 11 |
| Scabies | 348 | 566 | 654 | 515 | — | ||
| Scarlet fever | 155 | 197 | 270 | 683 | 255 | 98 | 109 |
| Smallpox | 1 | - | - | — | - | ||
| Puerperal fever | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Whooping-cough | 291 | 238 | 275 | 219 | 254 | 415 | 24 |
| TOTALS | 2374 | 1674 | 2201 | 30.16 | 1675 | 1612 | 561 |
* Notifiable as from 1 August 1943
DISINFECTION AND DISINFESTATION
Number ,of room's disinfected 1345
Number of articles treated at the Council's
disinfecting station.^..34904
Number of verminous children treated at the
Council's cleansing station 2372
Number of verminous adults treated 83
Number of treatments given for at the
cleansing station: adults 1940
children 1936
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