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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
Barnet 1970
[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 | 5 | (4) |
| Acute poliomyelitis | - | |
| Anthrax | - | |
| Cholera | - | |
| Diphtheria | - | |
| Dysentery | 33 | (228) |
| Food poisoning | 94 | (63) |
| Infective jaundice | 58 | (51) |
| Leprosy | - | |
| Leptospirosis | - | |
| Malaria | 2 | |
| Measles | 1363 | (672) |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 5 | (5) |
| Paratyphoid fever | 2 | (6) |
| Plague | ||
| Relapsing fever | ||
| Scarlet fever | 81 | (61) |
| Smallpox | - | |
| Tetanus | - | |
| Tuberculosis | ||
| Respiratory | 59 | (80) |
| Meninges and C.N.S. | 1 | |
| Other | 24 | (33) |
| Typhoid fever | 4 | (2) |
| Typhus | - | |
| Whooping cough | 81 | (30) |
| Yellow fever | ||
| 1812 | 1235 |
Figures in parenthesis represent notifications for 1969.
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