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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Bethnal Green 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]

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Table: Cases of Notifiable Diseases Notified during the Year

Cases of Notifiable Diseases Notified during the Year

DiseaseNumber of Cases NotifiedRemoved to Hospital
Reported †boy Registrar-GeneralTotalUnder 1 year1 and under 2 years2 and under 3 yearsana under 4 years4 and under 5 years5 and under 10 years10 and under 15 years15 and under 20 years20 and under 25 years25 and under 45 years45 and under 65 years65 and up-wards
Smallpox........................................................
Enteric Fever22....................................2........2
Diphtheria (inc. Memb. Croup)237235413132418104841258........235
Scarlet Fever34734811922344115145107144....316
Puerperal Fever22....................................2........1
Puerperal Pyrexia1818............................1512........13
Ophthalmia Neonator-um....1515............................................10
Erysipelas747312....1....27172125652
Cerebro-spinal Fever....3....2............1........................3
Acute Poliomyelitis....2....2........................................2
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica............................................................
Acute Polio-encephal-itis............................................................
Acute Primary Pneumonia131 ....12278936208732520653
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia8............................112221
Dysentery....231341241........23221
Malaria............................................................
Continued Fever............................................................
Typhus Fever, Cholera, Plague, Relapsing Fever............................................................
Anthrax, Hydrophobia, Glanders............................................................
‡Measles....7131........1........1............2
‡Whooping Cough4412356710................1....7
Pulmonary Tubercu-losis....1131....2........11141339393*
Other forms of Tuberculosis....16....2........133412........*
Total103143575669752979950431299419718

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*See particulars as to Sanatorium Treatment in Tuberculosis section
†The Registrar General's figures are for notifications received during the 52 weeks ended 31st December, 1938, and
include non-residents.
The Council's figures are for cases notified during the calendar year, and exclude non-residents and duplicate notifications.
‡Notifiable from 1st October, 1938.