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 Barnet]
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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
The following Table shows the total number of corrected notifications received during the year: —
Acute encephalitis | _ | (-) | |
Acute meningitis | 4 | (4) | |
Acute poliomyelitis | — | (-) | |
Anthrax | — | (-) | |
Cholera | — | (-) | |
Diphtheria | — | (-) | |
Dysentery | 228 | (71) | |
Food poisoning | 63 | (31) | |
Infective Jaundice | 51 | (21) | |
Leprosy | - | (-) | |
Leptospirosis | - | (-) | |
Malaria | — | (-) | |
Measles | 672 | (334) | |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 5 | (-) | |
Paratyphoid Fever | 6 | (-) | |
Plague | — | (-) | |
Relapsing Fever | - | (-) | |
Scarlet Fever | 61 | (23) | |
Smallpox | - | (-) | |
Tetanus | — | (-) | |
Tuberculosis | |||
Respiratory | 80 | (109) | |
Meninges and C.N.S. | - | (-) | |
Other | 33 | (21) | |
Typhoid Fever | 2 | (1) | |
Typhus | - | (-) | |
Whooping Cough | 30 | (53) | |
Yellow Fever | - | (-) | |
* Acute pneumonia | _ | (15) | |
* Puerperal pyrexia | (72) | ||
1235 | (755) |
Figures in parenthesis represent notifications for 1968.
* No longer notifiable
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