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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 1950

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Table: Infectious Disease Notifications, 1931-50.

Infectious Disease Notifications, 1931-50.

Disease193119321933193419351936193719381939194019411942194319441945194619471.1.48 to 4.7.485.7.48 to 31.12.4819491950
Small Pox41.........................................................
Scarlet Fever105174240392143171192150614875175212971479562355789110
Diphtheria4932408380104896427367225421063324...11...
Typhoid Fever333...35...1............1...1...............1
Continued Fever...............................................................
Undulant Fever....................................1........................
Puerperal Pyrexia9496411547226358693...2...
Anthrax...............................................................
MeningococcalInfections...14113121131268331211...1
Cholera...............................................................
Erysipelas1711313020221681917197221316259186127
Measles...........................301194599651112739358533818252354354
Acute Diarrhoea............1................................................
Typhus Fever...............................................................
Poliomyelitis..................1.....................23112262
Ophthalmia Neonatorum342243133131044226382
EncephalitisLethargica111........................1...........................
Pneumonia4552374535363243...302220503733413730131928
Malaria....................................11...1...1.........
Whooping Cough........................41618616116216696234216117149212387
Food Poisoning........................44611......51.........63
Dysentery....................................467136125716
Paratyphoid.............................................12............
Totals2422883685602933573382751254685911021116151511268078881033490717911