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 Chigwell]
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Comparative Tables of Infectious Disease Notification and Death Rates per 1,000 of the population, 1951.
(Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns)
England & Wales | 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London | 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations 25,000 to 50,000 at 1931 census) | London Adm. County | Chigwell U.D | ||
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NOTIFICATIONS (Corrected) | ||||||
Typhoid fever | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |
Paratyphoid fever | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.02 | |
Meningococcal infection | 0.03 | 0.04 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.00 | |
Scarlet fever | 1.11 | 1.20 | 1.20 | 1.10 | 1.26 | |
Whooping cough | 3.87 | 3.62 | 4.00 | 3.11 | 6.86 | |
Diphtheria | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |
Erysipelas | 0.14 | 0.15 | 0.12 | 0.15 | 0.07 | |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | 0.00 | |
Measles | 14.07 | 13.93 | 14.82 | 14.64 | 29.66 | |
Pneumonia | 0.99 | 1.04 | 0.96 | 0.72 | 0.86 | |
Acute poliomyelitis (including polioencephalitis) | ||||||
Paralytic | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.05 | |
Non-paralytic | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 | |
Food poisoning | 0.13 | 0.15 | 0.08 | 0.23 | 0.13 | |
DEATHS. | ||||||
Typhoid and Paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||
Whooping cough | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | |
Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
Tuberculosis | 0.31 | 0.37 | 0.31 | 0.38 | 0.16 | |
Influenza | 0.38 | 0.36 | 0.38 | 0.23 | 0.18 | |
Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | - | 0.00 | |
Acute poliomyelitis (in Cluding polioencephalitis) | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |
Pneumonia | 0.61 | 0.65 | 0.63 | 0.61 | 0.30 |