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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 1967

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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Table: Table 4MORBIDITY SHOWN IN INSURANCE CERTIFICATES

Table 4

MORBIDITY SHOWN IN INSURANCE CERTIFICATES

Weekly average for period ending19661967
January 241,5081,444
February 211,8891,310
March 211,6841,211
April 181,2421,076
May 161,1721,142
June 131,228965
July 11928922
August 8880926
September 5908900
October 31,0251,092
October 311,4181,200
November 281,4431,301
December 261,2161,491
Weekly average for the year 1966 1253
1967 1163

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LOCAL SICKNESS
The Regional Controller of the Ministry of Social Security sends a weekly return
indicating the first certificates of sickness benefit received in the local offices.
The areas served by these local offices are in the main coterminous with postal districts
of London and do not coincide with borough boundaries. Lewisham is served
mainly by three offices, "Lewisham", "Downham", and "Deptford", and a fair
representation of the trend of sickness within the borough can be given by quoting
the combined figures for these three.