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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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There were no deaths.
Milk in Schools
The arrangements for sampling milk at London County Council Schools
continued during the year, A total of 20 samples were submitted for examination,
all of which satisfied the prescribed tests.
SECTION E
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The total number of notifications of infectious disease, excluding Food
Poisoning, during 1960 was 340 as compared with 342 in 1958 and 897 in 1959.
The four confirmed cases of poliomyelitis were non-paralytic.
There were no cases of Diphtheria.
The number of cases of other diseases notified is shown in Table 10 which
follows, and requires no special comment.