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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 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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| Disease | Cases notified | Rem. to Hospital | CONFIRMED DIAGNOSES Age Groups:-1954 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total 1963 | Total 1954 | 0- | 1- | 3- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 25- | 35- | 45- | 55- | 65- | 75- | |||
| Pneumonia | 55 | 6 | 68 | 54 | - | 3 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 2 |
| Poliomyelitis: | |||||||||||||||||
| Paralytic | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Non-paralytic | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| ‡Puerperal Pyrexia | 76 | 75 | 46 | 76 | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 26 | 39 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| Scabies | 20 | - | 13 | 20 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 96 | 6 | 160 | 96 | - | 11 | 25 | 51 | 6 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough. | 230 | 31 | 372 | 229 | 36 | 47 | 69 | 71 | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| †*Zymotic Enteritis | 3 | 2 | 19 | 5 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Totals | 1,041 | 253 | 1,978 | 933 | 92 | 162 | 185 | 272 | 24 | 24 | 35 | 78 | 19 | 15 | 11 | 14 | 2 |
•Notifiable from July to September only.
fCertoin of these confirmed cases were notified as other diseases, and diagnoses later corrected.
JOf 76 Pyrexia cases—50 were not Southwark residents. Admitted to Hospital for confinements.