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Chelsea 1944
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1944
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SECTION VI.—INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
(a) Infectious Diseases Generally.
DISEASES COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE IN THE
BOROUGH.
Acute Poliomyelitis. Diphtheria.
Acute Polio-encephalitis. Membranous Croup.
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica. Dysentery.
Acute Primary Pneumonia. Erysipelas.
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia. Malaria.
Cerebro-spinal Fever. Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Chicken Pox. Pyrexia.
Plague Relapsing Fever.
Anthrax Small-pox.
Glanders Typhus Fever.
Hydrophobia Tuberculosis.
Cholera Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.
Continued Fever Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum *Measles.
Food Poisoning *Whooping Cough.
SCABIES (FROM 1.8.43)
NOTIFICATIONS DURING THE YEAR.
Table No. 40 shows the total number of cases of infectious disease
notified during the year, the distribution by age-groups, and the number
of cases treated in hospitals. The notifications have not been corrected
for any subsequent revision of diagnosis:—