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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

Mitcham 1936

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS.
The total number of certificates of notification received during
the year was 357, as compared with 293 last year.
Contacts, Suspects, Etc.
On 18 occasions during the year the Medical Officer of Health
was called in consultation by medical practitioners to see patients
in their own homes.
The sanitary inspectors have paid 729 visits to cases of
infectious disease; 294 were primary visits and 435 revisits.

Table: The monthly incidence of infectious disease was:—

The monthly incidence of infectious disease was:—

Small Pox.Scarlet FeverDiphtheriaEnteric FeverErysipelasPneumoniaPuerperal FeverPuerperal PyrexiaOphthalmia NeonatorumDysenteryCerebro-Spinal FeverTotals
January...289...76...............50
February...98......3............121
March...204...46............135
April...92...28...1.........22
May...10......16111......20
June...1521...2...2.........22
July...1110111...31......28
August...75...11...11......16
September...182221...1.........26
October...161312...............133
November...2432...2...12.........61
December...417......2...............23
Total...171104522362113...3357