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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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TABLE 10
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| DISEASE | NOTIFICATIONS | Total Notified | Corrected Figure | Removed toHospital | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1-2 years | 3 - 4 years | 5-14 years | 15-24 years | 25-44 years | 45-64 years | 65 and upwards | |||||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | 4 | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | ||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | ||||||||||
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | ||||||||||
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 8 | |||||||||||
| Acute Pneumonia | - | |||||||||||
| Paratyphoid "B" | - | - | - | |||||||||
| Dysentery | ||||||||||||
| Measles | ||||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | - | |||||||||||
| Scabies | - | |||||||||||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | - | |||||||||||
| Meninges and C.N.S. | - | - | - | |||||||||
| Other forms | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| TOTALS | 8 | 1069 | ||||||||||
There was one case of Malaria contracted abroad.