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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 1972
[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 Healths-
Acute encephalitis
Acute meningitis
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
Smallpox
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhoid fever
Typhus
Whooping Cough
Yellow fever
NUMBER OF NOTIFIED CASES
(Corrected for revised diagnosis) during the year 1972 with comparative figures for the previous six years.
| Diseases | Cakes notified | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 1971 | 1970 | 1969 | 1968 | |
| Anthrax | — | — | — | — | — |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | — |
| Dysentery | 19 | 13 | 59 | 137 | 46 |
| Encephalitis (acute) | 2 | 1 | — | - | 1 |
| Enteric or Typhoid fever | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Infective jaundice | 39 | 33 | 46 | 47 | 21 |
| Food poisoning | 6 | 16 | 40 | 36 | 20 |
| Malaria | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Measles | 420 | 1,181 | 1,521 | 1,787 | 799 |
| Meningococcal infection | 31 | 28 | 27 | 24 | 16 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 1 | — | — | 2 | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis (acute) | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Scarlet fever | 75 | 120 | 96 | 86 | 105 |
| Tetanus | 1 | — | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis | 103 | 100 | 127 | 107 | 132 |
| Whooping cough | 18 | 68 | 110 | 32 | 146 |
| TOTALS | 721 | 1,570 | 2,031 | 2,260 | 1,290 |