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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
Southwark 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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*Notifiable from July to September only.
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Infectious Diseases (continued)
| Disease | Cases notified | Rem. to Hospital | CONFIRMED DIAGNOSES Age Groups :—1953 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total 1952 | Total 1953 | 0— | 1— | 3— | 5— | 10— | 15— | 20— | 25— | 35— | 45— | 55— | 65— | 75— | |||
| Pneumonia | 68 | 6 | 58 | 68 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 4 |
| Poliomyelitis: Paralytic | 7 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Non-paralytic | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ‡Puerperal Pyrexia | 46 | 44 | 30 | 46 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 11 | 24 | 6 | - | - | - | - |
| Scabies | 13 | - | 34 | 13 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 164 | 17 | 292 | 160 | - | 14 | 42 | 93 | 7 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhoid Fever | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 379 | 40 | 177 | 372 | 48 | 103 | 94 | 119 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| *Zymotic Enteritis | 22 | 19 | 7 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 2,085 | 331 | 1,696 | 1,978 | 143 | 501 | 507 | 634 | 32 | 16 | 21 | 55 | 23 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 6 |
†Certain of these confirmed cases were notified as other diseases, and diagnoses later corrected.
‡Of 46 Pyrexia cases—29 were not Southwark residents.