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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Removal to Hospital
Removal to hospital in certain circumstances of cases of Chicken-pox, German
Measles, Measles Mumps and Scarlet Fever may be effected by telephoning to the
Public Health Department (TERminus 7070),
In the case of other infectious diseases application should be made direct
to the Emergency Bed Service (HOP 7181).
NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 1955 (with 1954 comparison)
| Disease | Notifications | Diagnosis Subsequently revised | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1 and over | Totals | ||||||
| 1955 | 1954 | 1955 | 1954 | 1955 | 1954 | 1955 | 1954 | |
| Acute Influenzal and Acute Primary Pneumonia | - | 1 | 59 | 62 | 59 | 63 | 1 | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | 46 | 4 | 47 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
| Diphtheria and membranous croup | - | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| Dysentery | 9 | 9 | 166 | 162 | 175 | 171 | 5 | 2 |
| Encephalitis, Acute | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | - | - | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | 13 | 18 | 13 | 18 | - | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 2 | 98 | 78 | 99 | 80 | - | - |
| Malaria | - | - | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | - | - |
| Measles | 60 | 13 | 1, 558 | 385 | 1.618 | 398 | 8 | 2 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | - |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 6 | 3 | - | - | 6 | 3 | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | 53 | 81 | 53 | 81 | - | - |
| Scabies | - | - | 29 | 36 | 29 | 36 | - | - |
| Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever | - | 1 | 55 | 85 | 55 | 86 | 4 | 4 |
| Whooping Cough | 20 | 14 | 93 | 94 | 113 | 108 | 6 | 1 |