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 Hammersmith.
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TABLE. OF NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES SINCE 1965
DISEASE | TOTALS NOTIFIED IN: | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1965 | 1966 | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 | 1970 | 1971 | 1972 | |
Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
Dysentery | 94 | 258 | 75 | 62 | 130 | 74 | 138 | 113 |
Encephalitis, Acute Infective | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Encephalitis. Acute Post-Infective | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Erysipelas | 6 | 10 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - |
Food Poisoning | 25 | 29 | 34 | 35 | 107 | 86 | 93 | 31 |
Infective Jaundice | - | - | - | 35 | 57 | 80 | 63 | 57 |
Leprosy | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Leptospirosis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Malaria | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | 7 | 6 |
Measles | 1,907 | 1,233 | 1,075 | 496 | 410 | 624 | 283 | 214 |
Meningitis. Acute | 7 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 11 |
Opthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 5 | - | 6 | - | - | 3 | 1 |
Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | 1 | 6 | - | - | - | 3 |
Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | 24 | 8 | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - |
Poliomyelitis, Acute Paralytic | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Poliomyelitis, Acute Non-Paralytic | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 65 | 50 | 24 | 23 | - | - | - | - |
Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Scabies | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 43 | 29 | 38 | 77 | 31 | 24 | 29 | 18 |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tetanus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | 116 | 89 | 91 | 90 | 92 | 76 | 73 | 77 |
Tuberculosis, Non-Pulmonary | 33 | 19 | 12 | 16 | 29 | 17 | 21 | 13 |
Typhoid Fever | - | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
Typhus | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Whooping Cough | 49 | 122 | 126 | 87 | 15 | 60 | 51 | 11 |
Yellow Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
TOTALS | 2,381 | 1,856 | 1,504 | 954 | 882 | 1,057 | 780 | 560 |
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