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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SECTION B
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
Notifiable Infectious Diseases and Deaths during the year 1961
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 | (1) | - | - | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 156 (128) | 1 | 16 | 152 | 15 |
Diphtheria | 10 (4) | 2 | 9 | 4 | - |
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 2 (6) | . | 2 | 2 | |
Typhus Fever | (-) | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 247 (160) | - | 236 | 247 | - |
Ac. Primary & Influenzal Pneumonia | 44 (56) | 1 | 13 | 44 | 1 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 37 (17) | - | 35 | 37 | - |
Acute Encephalitis | 6 (2) | - | 6 | 4 | - |
Meningococcal Infection. | 6 (4) | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 |
Anthrax. | - (-) | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 263 (804) | - | 43 | 250 | 71 |
Malaria | (1) | - | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | 18 (15) | - | 6 | 8 | 1 |
Measles | 3310 (1436) | - | 84 | 3306 | 207 |
Whooping Cough | 69 ( 565) | - | 10 | 67 | 8 |
Ac. Poliomyelitis | 4 (27) | - | 4 | 1 | - |
Food Poisoning. . | 119 (131) | - | 17 | 112 | 22 |
Tuberculosis - Lungs | 309 ( 370) | 22 | - | 238 | - |
Tuberculosis - Other Forms. | 23 (39) | 1 | - | 23 | - |
Scabies | 58 ( 62) | - | 1 | 58 | 116 |
(Figures in brackets are notifications for 1960)
Domiciliary Visiting of Infectious Disease Cases and Contacts - No. of Visits
Smallpox | 97 | Measles | 3,178 |
Scarlet Fever | 165 | Whooping Cough. | 75 |
Diphtheria | 203 | Acute Poliomyelitis | 21 |
Enteric Fever (including Typhoid and Paratyphoid) | 19 | Food Poisoning | 116 |
Meningococcal Infection | 4 | Scabies | 127 |
Dysentery | 427 | Vermin | 139 |
Malaria | 1 | Infective Hepatitis | 184 |
Acute Encephalitis. | 9 | Ineffective Visits | 860 |
Erysipelas | 19 | Others | 35 |
Total | 5,679 |