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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
Lewisham 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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44
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in the
Borough : —
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Acute Polio-Encephalitis
Acute Polio-Myelitis
Anthrax
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis
Cholera
Continued Fever
Diphtheria
Dysentery
Erysipelas
Enteric (or Typhoid) Fever
Hydrophobia
Glanders
Malaria
Membranous Croup
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Plague
Puerperal Fever
Puerperal Pyrexia
Relapsing Fever
Scarlet Fever
Smallpox
Tuberculosis
Typhus Fever
The following table shows the incidence of infectious disease during the year, and in the two preceding years : —
| Disease. | Year. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | |
| Smallpox | 3 | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 1,277 | 830 | 868 |
| Diphtheria | 473 | 314 | 247 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 2 | 17 | 6 |
| Typhoid Fever | 4 | 5 | 6 |
| Puerperal Fever | 12 | 3 | 2 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 31 | 32 | 35 |
| Erysipelas | 141 | 68 | 92 |
| Acute Primary and Influenzal Pneumonia | 273 | 184 | 200 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 17 | 4 | 18 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 5 | 6 | 9 |
| Polio-Myelitis | 4 | 1 | 2 |
| Malaria | — | — | 2 |
| Totals | 2,243 | 1,465 | 1,489 |