London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
St Pancras 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Disease | Notifications | Diagnosis subsequently revised | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1 and over | Totals | ||||||
| 1951 | 1952 | 1951 | 1952 | 1951 | 1952 | 1951 | 1952 | |
| Acute Influenzal and Acute Primary Pneumonia | 4 | 117 | 121 | 2 | ||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | — | — | 7 | 7 | 2 | 4 | ||
| Diphtheria and membranous croup | — | — | 12 | 12 | 11 | |||
| Dysentery | 12 | 148 | 160 | 7 | 7 | |||
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | — | — | 3 | — | 3 | — | 2 | — |
| Erysipelas | — | — | 24 | 24 | 2 | — | ||
| Food poisoning | 39 | 40 | 19 | — | — | |||
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Measles | 104 | 1,993 | 3 | |||||
| Meningococcal Infection | 7 | — | ||||||
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | — | — | 7 | — | — | |||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | 51 | 51 | — | — | ||
| Scabies | — | 44 | 45 | — | — | |||
| Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever | — | — | 114 | 114 | 11 | |||
| Typhus | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| Whooping Cough | 48 | 351 | 399 | 8 | ||||