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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
Stepney 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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Table 19. NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
| DISEASE | 1959 | 1949-1958 CORRECTED NOTIFICATIONS | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notifications | Admitted to Hospital | Corrected Total | |||||||||||
| 1958 | 1957 | 1956 | 1955 | 1954 | 1953 | 1952 | 1951 | 1950 | 1949 | ||||
| Ac.Encephalitis - | |||||||||||||
| Infective | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | l | - | - | — | - |
| Post-Infectious | 2 | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | |
| Ac.Poliomyelitis- | |||||||||||||
| Paralytic | 8 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 27 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 17 |
| Non-paralytic | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 17 | — | 3 | - | 9 | ||
| Diphtheria | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 3 | 3 | |
| Dysentery | 87 | 14 | 87 | 345 | 34 | 115 | 147 | 117 | 67 | 71 | 216 | 19 | 12 |
| Enteric-Fever | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | - | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 13 | 2 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 24 | 17 | 17 | 16 |
| Food Poisoning | 10 | 5 | 8 | 69 | 8 | 22 | 18 | 23 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 8 |
| Malaria | - | — | — | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Measles | 1344 | 99 | 1344 | 199 | 1398 | 574 | 1834 | 144 | 655 | 1284 | 1459 | 504 | 1127 |
| Membranous Croup | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | 2 | — |
| Mening. Infection | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| Oph.Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 10 | . 24 | 24 | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| Pneumonia | 131 | 14 | 131 | 90 | 77 | 79 | 54 | 65 | 78 | 63 | 97 | 61 | 82 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 58 | 58 | 58 | 26 | 44 | 63 | 134 | 163 | 98 | 96 | 34 | 14 | 8 |
| Scabies | 49 | — | 49 | 53 | 51 | 43 | 39 | 29 | 22 | 28 | 28 | 67 | 99 |
| Scarlet Fever | 59 | 10 | 59 | 97 | 46 | 34 | 26 | 60 | 75 | 208 | 135 | 106 | 166 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | - | - |
| Tuberculosis - | |||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | 136 | - | 135 | 136 | 120 | 116 | 149 | 160 | 167 | 137 | 173 | 160 | 158 |
| Non-pulmonary | 14 | - | 14 | 9 | 18 | 11 | 23 | 23 | 13 | 12 | lb | lb | 12 |
| Whooping Cough | 76 | 21 | 76 | 36 | 76 | 235 | 147 | 125 | 249 | 156 | 223 | 292 | 129 |
| TOTALS: | 1995 | 237 | 1988 | 881 | 1912 | 1318 | 2656 | 945 | 1489 | 2133 | 2434 | 1299 | 1847 |