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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
Greenwich 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Greenwich Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS showing Comparison of Year of Inception of the Borough with Year 1938, the Years of the War Period 1939-1945 and Year 1946.
| Notifiable Disease. | War Period. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | |
| Chicken-Pox | 52 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Small-Pox | 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Scabies | — | — | — | — | — | — | 263 | 405 | 312 | 179 |
| Diphtheria | 183 | 244 | 121 | 45 | 50 | 72 | 91 | 59 | 54 | 28 |
| Membranous Croup | 5 | 9 | — | — | — | — | __ | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | — | 23 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 22 | 9 | 8 | 28 | 7 |
| Erysipelas | 110 | 48 | 40 | 19 | 30 | 32 | 24 | 15 | 24 | 17 |
| Acute Polio-Myelitis | — | 5 | — | — | 4 | — | _ | — | 1 | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 417 | 161 | 144 | 64 | 53 | 159 | 303 | 129 | 83 | 103 |
| Enteric Fever | 67 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 3 | — | — | — | 4 |
| Continued Fever | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Puerperal Fever | 6 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | 35 | 13 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | — | 1 | 4 | 23 | 12 | 15 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 5 |
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | 2 | 3 | 2 | — | 1 | 4 |
| Measles | — | 1,930 | 44 | 114 | 327 | 650 | 974 | 330 | 341 | 902 |
| Whooping Cough | — | 129 | 524 | 22 | 221 | 235 | 276 | 154 | 133 | 211 |
| Diarrhœa | — | 114 | 60 | 16 | 13 | 27 | 25 | 25 | 37 | 23 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | 15 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | — | 122 | 90 | 95 | 95 | 164 | 128 | 115 | 101 | 103 |
| „ Non-Pulmonary | — | 30 | 13 | 9 | 19 | 18 | 27 | 14 | 13 | 8 |
| Pneumonia, Acute Primary or Acute Influenzal | — | 92 | 138 | 69 | 83 | 81 | 207 | 120 | 64 | 74 |
| Totals | 851 | 2,963 | 1,216 | 501 | 929 | 1,501 | 2,339 | 1,397 | 1,216 | 1,691 |