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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 1950

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

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Table: TABLE 16Infectious Disease

TABLE 16

Infectious Disease

DiseaseNotificationsTotal notifiedRemoved to HospitalDeathsCorrected figures
0-1 year1-2 years2-5 years5-15 years15-25 years25-45 years45-65 years65-years
Diphtheria—12232——1010—1
Scarlet Fever—3224011——6724—63
Puerperal Pyrexia————78——155—15
Ophthalmia Neonatorum8———————8——8
Erysipelas———1—165135—13
Meningococcal Infection————1———11—1
Acute Poliomyelitis3—32———87—6
Acute Pneumonia2—6—3594297—29
Dysentery14711211184—15
Measles1625107901———23912—237
Whooping Cough1726837711——20527„—202
Scabies—112231111——11
Pulmonary Tuberculosis214632257279—18—
Other forms of Tuberculosis——3112——7—2—
Total49612382225350241371010220601