Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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.