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Lewisham 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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54
SECTION F—PREVALENCE OF and CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
PRINCIPAL NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
The undermentioned diseases are notifiable by medical practitioners to the
Medical Officer of Health:—
Anthrax
Cholera
Continued fever
Diphtheria
Dysentery (bacillary or amoebic)
Encephalitis, acute
Enteric fever
Erysipelas
Food poisoning
Glanders
Hydrophobia
Malaria
Measles
Membranous croup
Meningococcal infection
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Plague
Pneumonia, acute influenzal
Pneumonia, acute primary
Poliomyelitis, acute
Puerperal pyrexia
Relapsing fever
Scabies
Scarlet fever
Smallpox
Tuberculosis, all forms
Typhoid fever, including paratyphoid
Typhus fever
Whooping cough

Table: INFECTIOUS DISEASESNumber of notified cases(corrected for revised diagnosis) during the year 1955 with comparative figures for the previous six years.Table 35

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Number of notified cases(corrected for revised diagnosis) during the year 1955 with comparative figures for the previous six years.

Table 35

DiseasesCases notified
1955195419531952195119501949
Anthrax——————1
Diphtheria1—1———3
Dysentery9239484169365639
Encephalitis (acute)——3—51—
Enteric or typhoid fever112—413
Erysipelas26241819244135
Food poisoning481103233263850
Malaria1321121
Measles390552120822183254620841940
Meningococcal infection46105673
Ophthalmia neonatorum4234336
Pneumonia121771898917310884
Poliomyelitis (acute)63165215113835
Puerperal pyrexia92595788632927
Scabies1814518212229
Scarlet fever158331283379215358521
Tuberculosis271256341307299406371
Whooping cough412449574512819813363
TOTALS5217226337383822558136083109