[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough] page 44

Kensington 1952

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Notifiable disease	Number of cases notified
	Number of cases notified								1952	1951	1950	1949	1948	1947	1946	1945
	Scarlet fever	108	68	100	114	94	98	195	136
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)	—	1	2	2	12	23	37	19
Enteric fever	2	7	12	7	4	4	6	3
Puerperal feverø	—	—	—	—	—	3	4	7
Puerperal Pyrexia	83	22	18	33	25	9	8	12
Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia	71	149	69	121	142	103	111	81
Dysentery	31	81	18	33	145	21	49	142
Erysipelas	11	13	17	15	24	34	37	33
Meningococcal infection	4	8	5	8	4	7	10	3
Malaria	1	2	2	—	2	4	8	11
Acute poliomyelitis Paralytic	17	8	7	47	9	27	1	3
Non-paralytic	4	4	6
Acute encephalitis	3	1	—	1	—	2	—	1
Tuberculosis (all forms)	251	238	278	266	258	259	210	188
Measles	839	1314	696	740	868	852	264	868
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	2	2	12	5	7	4	4	8
Enteritis +	30	25	63	88	64	102	69	100
Pood poisoning	20	18	23	33	11	7	7	6
Scabies	26	34	72	106	141	239	463	460
Whooping cough	228	484	316	304	264	274	209	62
TOTALS:	1731	2479	1716	1923	2074	2072	1692	2143

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ø Puerperal Pyrexia only notifiable in London
since 1948.
+ Notifiable only in children under the age of 5.
NOTE: Gases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded
from above table.

London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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