London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bexley 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]
This page requires JavaScript
The notifications of infectious disease for 1970 are set out below together with the 1969 figures for comparison. In all, there were 685 notifications during the year compared with 897 during the previous year, the reduction being proportional throughout the list of causes except for whooping cough. The comments that follow will also include observations on two outbreaks of infection in schools.
| 1969 | 1970 | |
|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 125 | 83 |
| Whooping Cough | 16 | 61 |
| Poliomyelitis (a) Paralytic | — | — |
| (b) Non-Paralytic | — | — |
| Measles | 584 | 459 |
| Diphtheria | — | — |
| Dysentery | 43 | 14 |
| Acute Pneumonia | — | — |
| Smallpox | — | — |
| Acute Encephalitis (a) Infective | — | 1 |
| (b) Post Infective | — | — |
| Typhoid Fever | 2 | 1 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | — | 1 |
| Erysipelas | — | — |
| Food Poisoning | 44 | 20 |
| T uberculosis (a) Respiratory | 26 | 12 |
| (b) Meninges & CNS | — | — |
| (c) Other | 9 | 4 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — |
| Anthrax | — | — |
| Infective Jaundice | 36 | 24 |
| Tetanus | — | — |
| Leptospirosis | — | — |
| Acute Meningitis | 12 | 4 |
| Malaria | — | 1 |
| TOTALS | 897 | 685 |