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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 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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PREVALENCE OF and CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
Under the Health Services and Public Health Act, 1968, and the Public Health
(Infectious Diseases) Regulations, 1968, the following diseases are notifiable to the
Medical Officer of Health:—
Acute encephalitis
Acute meninigitis
Acute poliomyelitis
Anthrax
Cholera
Diphtheria
Dysentery (amoebic or bacillary) .
Food poisoning
Infective jaundice
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Malaria
Measles
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Paratyphoid fever
Plague
Relapsing fever
Scarlet fever
Small pox
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhoid fever
Typhus
Whooping cough
Yellow fever
NUMBER OF NOTIFIED CASES
(Corrected for revised diagnosis) during the year 1969 with comparative figures
for the previous six years.
| Diseases | Cases notified | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | 1965 | 1964 | 1963 | |
| Anthrax | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – |
| Diphtheria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Dysentery | 137 | 46 | 90 | 152 | 159 | 226 | 870 |
| Encephalitis (acute) | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Enteric or typhoid fever | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| Infective jaundice | 47 | 21 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Food poisoning | 36 | 20 | 22 | 34 | 20 | 19 | 13 |
| Malaria | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Measles | 1,787 | 799 | 2,561 | 2,017 | 3,014 | 1,553 | 3,186 |
| Meningococcal infection | 24 | 16 | – | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Poliomyelitis (acute) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Scarlet fever | 86 | 105 | 174 | 82 | 161 | 197 | 103 |
| Tuberculosis | 107 | 132 | 116 | 148 | 157 | 203 | 210 |
| Whooping cough | 32 | 146 | 130 | 169 | 108 | 190 | 258 |
| TOTALS | 2,260 | 1,290 | 3,102 | 2,609 | 3,625 | 2,394 | 4,658 |