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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TABLE III
Disease | Total cases notified | Cases admitted to hospial | Total Deaths | |||
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1955 | 1954 | 1955 | 1954 | 1955 | 1954 | |
Scarlet Fever | 95 | 24 | 29 | - | - | |
Whooping Cough | 51† | 9 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
Measles | 659 | 47 | 16 | 1 | - | - |
Pneumonia (notifiable) | 17 | 18† | 7 | 6† | 24† | 17† |
Dysentery | 12* | 12+ | 3 | 3† | - | - |
Typhoid | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 6 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | 8 | 9 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
Meningococcal Infection | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Food Poisoning | 8+ | 4 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 3 | - | 2 | - | - |
Malaria | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | 61† | 4+ | 6 | 4† | - | - |
Non-Paralytic | 5* | - | 5 | - | - | - |
Diphtheria | 1+ | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Acute Encephalitis (In fective) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
TOTALS | 827 | 207 | 74 | 52 | 24 | 18 |
†Includes one case subsequently not confirmed
‡Includes deaths from non-notifiable pneumonia
Includes two cases subsequently not confirmed.
** Includes four cases subsequently not confirmed.
TABLE IV OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM
Cases Notified | Cases treated at home | Cases' treated in hospital | Vision unimpaired | Vision impaired | Total blindness | Deaths |
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1 | 1 | 1 |
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