Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1961
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEARS 1952-1961
Notifiable Disease | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 |
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Scarlet Fever | 87 | 59 | 62 | 113 | 82 | 69 | 52 | 64 | 25 | 34 |
Whooping Cough | 40 | 124 | 135 | 51 | 43 | 113 | 32 | 14 | 78 | 19 |
Acute Polio-Myelitis and Acute Polio-Encephalitis | 1 | 2 | – | 14 | 2 | – | 2 | – | 2 | – |
Measles | 716 | 514 | 183 | 1271 | 149 | 1099 | 268 | 635 | 218 | 879 |
Diphtheria | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
Dysentery | 7 | 25 | 56 | 29 | 164 | 7 | 183 | 101 | 357 | 75 |
Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | – | 3 | – | – | – | – |
Pneumonia (Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal) | 25 | 40 | 19 | 23 | 30 | 32 | 47 | 41 | 5 | – |
Enteric or Typhoid Fever | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – |
Paratyphoid Fevers | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – |
Erysipelas | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
Food Poisoning | – | – | 7 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 33 | 47 | 43 | 47 |
Tuberculosis— | ||||||||||
Respiratory System | 59 | 72 | 63 | 54 | 60 | 76 | 51 | 46 | 26 | 36 |
Other Forms | 8 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 6 | – | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
Anthrax | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Malaria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 19 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – | 1 | 21 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 194 | – | 3 |
*Acute Gastro-Enteritis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 194 | 329 | 152 |
Scabies | 4 | – | 5 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 2 |
*Notifiable as from 1st January 1959 | ||||||||||
Totals | 980 | 857 | 558 | 1588 | 564 | 1420 | 691 | 1152 | 1098 | 1276 |