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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 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF DISEASE.
The accompanying table shows the number of cases
of various diseases notified during the year, also the
number removed to hospital. There was a general
reduction in cases of Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Tuberculosis
and Whooping Cough. Measles, however, increased
greatly in prevalence, the number of notifications
being nearly quadrupled. By the end of the
previous year the epidemic of Poliomyelitis had spent
itself and during 1948 only 1 case, which proved fatal,
was notified.