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 Brentford and Chiswick]
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SECTION D .
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
A . - NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEAR.
Disease. | Total Cases notified. | Cases admitted to Hospital. | Total Deaths. |
---|---|---|---|
Small-pox | - | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 55 | 34 | 1 |
Diphtheria | 26 | 26 | 3 |
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | l | 1 | |
Opthalmia Noonatorium | 1 | ||
Pneumonia | 15 | 8 | 35 |
Erysipelas | 3 | 1 | |
Measles | 254 | 4 | |
Whooping Cough | 92 | 16 | 3 |
Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 5 | 5 | 2 |
Acute Polio-encephalitis | 2 | 1* | |
Dysentery | 1 | ||
Malaria | 1 | 1ø | - |
* Anterior Poliomyelitis
ø Induced in Institution
B. - OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Cases Notified | Cases treated at Home | Cases treated in Hospital | Vision unimpaired | Vision impaired | Total Blindness | Deaths |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | - | - | - |