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Southwark 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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SUMMARY OF NOTIFICATIONS, AGE GROUPS OF CONFIRMED CASES, AND HOSPITAL ADMISSIONS.
| Disease | Cases notified | Rem. to Hospital | CONFIRMED CASES, SOUTHWARK RESIDENTS Diagnosed in or outside Borough—Age Groups, 1956. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total 1955 | Total 1956 | 0— | 1— | 2— | 3— | 4— | 5— | 10— | 15— | 25— | 45— | 65— | |||
| Pneumonia | 1 | _ | |||||||||||||
| Poliomyelitis: | |||||||||||||||
| †Paralytic | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||||||
| †Non-paralytic | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Scabies | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | — | — | |||||||||||||
| Typhoid Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | — |
| Whooping Cough | — | — | — | ||||||||||||
| †Zymotic Enteritis (July-Sept.) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Totals | |||||||||||||||
Cases notified include 52 non-Southwark residents.
*Confirmed cases include 36 Southwark residents notified to other Boroughs. (74 in 1955).
†(Certain of these confirmed cases were notified as other diseases, and diagnoses later corrected.