Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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Notifiable Infectious Diseases and Deaths during the year 1959.
Disease | Number of Notifications | Number of Deaths | Removed to Hospital | Number of Cases returned to Registrar-General after correction of Diagnosis | Cases coming to knowledge' but not Notified |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 244 (272) | - | 25 | 242 | 17 |
Diphtheria | 48 (6) | - | 47 | 9 | - |
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 17 (3) | - | 11 | 9 | 5 |
Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 312 (329) | - | 307 | 308 | - |
Ac. Primary & Influenzal Pneumonia | 108 (112) | 6 | 7 | 108 | - |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 58 (29) | - | 53 | 58 | - |
Acute Encephalitis | 3 (3) | 1 | 3 | 3 | - |
Meningococcal Infection | 4 (8) | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 |
Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 329 (831) | - | 22 | 316 | 72 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | 29 (31) | - | 5 | 28 | 3 |
Measles | 1,360 (2,965) | 1 | 67 | 1,382 | 81 |
Whooping Cough | 165 (116) | 1 | 28 | 158 | 20 |
Ac. Poliomyelitis | 96 (28) | 7 | 96 | 59 | 1 |
Food Poisoning | 164 (183) | - | 22 | 158 | 215 |
Tuberculosis - Lungs | 355 (457) | 23 | - | 252 | - |
Tuberculosis - Other Forms | 19 (23) | 2 | - | 14 | - |
Scabies | 73 (112) | - | 5 | 74 | 181 |
(Figures in brackets are notifications for 1958).
Domiciliary Visiting of Infectious Disease Cases and Contacts - No. of Visits
Smallpox | 22 | Measles | 1,469 |
Scarlet Fever | 253 | Whooping Cough | 186 |
Diphtheria | 715 | Acute Poliomyelitis | 387 |
Enteric Fever (including Typhoid and Paratyphoid) | 23 | Food Poisoning | 250 |
Meningococcal Infection | 5 | Scabies | 198 |
Dysentery | 411 | Vermin | 532 |
Malaria | - | Influenza | - |
Acute Encephalitis | 4 | Ineffective Visits | 1,280 |
Erysipelas | 32 | Others | 66 |
Total | 5,833 |