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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 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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Table 23
| Diseases | Number of coses notified | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 1947 | 1946 | 1945 | 1944 | 1943 | 1942 | |
| Cerebro-spinal fever | 5 | 19 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 25 |
| Continued and relapsing fever | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Diphtheria | 5 | 9 | 8 | 24 | 24 | 26 | 53 |
| Dysentery | 24 | 26 | 57 | 31 | 65 | 23 | 34 |
| Encephalitis lethargica (acute) | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Enteric or typhoid fever | 2 | 4 | 2 | — | — | 1 | 2 |
| Erysipelas | 33 | 45 | 34 | 50 | 86 | 57 | 52 |
| Hydrophobia | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Malaria | 2 | 4 | 15 | — | — | — | — |
| Measles | 2,642 | 810 | 1,307 | 462 | 688 | 1,270 | 858 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 9 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 4 |
| Pneumonia | 67 | 104 | 108 | 71 | 110 | 176 | 103 |
| Polioencephalitis (acute) | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis (acute) | 9 | 61 | — | 5 | — | — | 5 |
| Puerperal pyrexia or fever | 50 | 43 | 32 | 25 | 20 | 21 | 30 |
| Scabies* | 54 | 122 | 348 | 566 | 654 | 515 | * |
| Scarlet fever | 332 | 254 | 155 | 197 | 270 | 683 | 255 |
| Smallpox | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Whooping cough | 789 | 362 | 291 | 238 | 275 | 219 | 254 |
| TOTALS | 4,023 | 1,884 | 2,374 | 1,674 | 2,201 | 3,016 | 1,675 |
*Notifiable as from 1 August 1943
Tuberculosis
The number of new cases notified during the year 1948 and the number of deaths (together with comparative figures for the previous year) were as follows:—
| New cases notified | Deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 1948 | 1947 | 1948 | |
| Pulmonary | 367 | 448 | 121 | 109 |
| Non-pulmonary | 59 | 54 | 13 | 10 |
| Totals | 426 | 502 | 134 | 119 |