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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
Hammersmith 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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4. Action taken with verminous cases -
| (a) Advice and/or Lorexane | 465 | (412) |
| (b) Further action | 80 | 116) |
| (c) 4(b) expressed as a % of 4(a) | 17.20 | (28.15) |
| Analysis of 4(b) cases - referrals of | ||
| hardcore cases to bathing centres | ||
| Voluntary attendance at bathing centres - | ||
| Number of pupils | 80 | (116) |
| Number of statutory notices issued | ( " ) | |
| Number cleansed at centres following statutory notices | ||
| Voluntarily | -V | (V) |
| Compulsorily | ( " ) | |
5. Communicable Disease Surveys
| Number examined for - Athlete's Foot | 218 | (183) |
| Plantar Warts | 393 | (191) |
| Dysentery | 7 | (1,103) |
| Other communicable diseases | 2,136 | (1,702) |
| Total of (5) | 2,754 | (3,179) |
Infectious Diseases in Schools
When a pupil is absent from school and the cause is either known or
suspected to be due to infectious disease, the Head of the school notifies
the Principal School Medical Officer. These notifications are uncorrected
for diagnosis, but form the best available index of the trends of the
infectious diseases in the school community; they are the only figures
available for disease which are not statutorily notifiable. The following
is a table of the infectious diseases notified by Heads of schools in 1969:-
Disease
Disease
Chicken Pox 331 (461)
Diphtheria - -
Dysentery, Diarrhoea or
Enteritis 173 (156)
Food Poisoning - (2)
German Measles 68 (396)
Influenza 46 (49)
Impetigo 18 (25)
Jaundice 19 (23)
Measles 191 (311)
Mumps 473 (80)
Poliomyelitis - (1)
Pneumonia - (2)
Pulmonary Tuberculosis 2 (1)
(Primary)
Ringworm (Scalp) 13 (5)
Ringworm (Body) 16 (10)
Scabies 41 (29)
Scarlet Fever 32 (45)
Sore Throat 5 (19)
Tonsilitis 49 (81)
Typhoid Fever and
Paratyphoid Fever 1 (-)
Whooping Cough 11 (35)
Ophthalmia and
Conjunctivitis 6 (18)
Other Diseases: Sickness 2 (-)
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