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 1962
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SUMMARY OF NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES RECEIVED DURING THE YEARS 1958-1962 (inclusive)
Disease | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | Average for five years |
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Dysentery | 111 | 62 | 69 | 39 | 67 | 69.6 |
Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | 1.6 |
Food Poisoning | 7 | 5 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 6.0 |
Measles | 217 | 4l6 | 15 | 564 | 63 | 255.0 |
Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1.8 |
Pneumonia: Ac.Influenzal | 4 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4.6 |
Ac. Primary | 11 | 9 | 2 | 3 | - | 5.0 |
Poliomyelitis: Paralytic | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1.6 |
Non-paralytic | — | 1 | - | — | — | 0.2 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 46 | 36 | 19 | 4 | 3 | 21.6 |
Scabies | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4.0 |
Scarlet Fever | 16 | 31 | 20 | 4 | 3 | l4.8 |
Typhoid Fever | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 0.6 |
Whooping Cough | 20 | 33 | 62 | 24 | 6 | 29.0 |