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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
Southgate 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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Notified Oases of Infectious Diseases, 1942.
| Diseases. | Totals | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sep. | Oct | Nov. | Dec. | D’ths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinlitheria | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Scarlet fever | 95 | 6 | 11 | 6 | I | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 21 | 16 | 13 | - |
| Typhoid fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 24 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Erysipelas Ophthalmia | 12 | 2 | 3 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | ||
| Neonatorurn . | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Measles | 371 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 27 | 7 | 6 | 35 | 50 | 46 | 34 | 28 | 124 | - |
| Who oping Cough | 156 | 31 | 28 | 32 | 9 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Cerebro-spinal meningit is | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - | |||
| Pneumonia | 54 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 29 |
| Tuberculosis -Pulmonary | 60 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 25 |
| "N on-Pulmonary | 12 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 |
| Totals | 796 | 58 | 58 | 73 | 56 | 39 | 41 | 62 | 73 | 58 | 70 | 56 | 152 | 61 |
Including all forms of pneumonia, notifiable & non-notifiablo.
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