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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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| DISEASE | Notified to Southwark | Rem. to Hospital. | CONFIRMED CASES, SOUTHWARK RESIDENTS Diagnosed in or outside Borough—Age Groups, 1957. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total 1956 | Total 1957 | 0- | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65- | |||
| Pneumonia | 61 | 21 | 64 | 70 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | _ | 5 | 12 | 22 | 14 |
| Poliomyelitis: Paralytic | 3 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Non-paralytic | 5 | 10 | 2 | 7 | — | — | — | — | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 86 | 52 | 38 | 49 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 24 | 25 | — | — |
| Scabies | 35 | — | 38 | 35 | — | — | 3 | — | — | 4 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 144 | 7 | 259 | 142 | — | 2 | 11 | 16 | 16 | 82 | 10 | 3 | 2 | — | — |
| Typhoid Fever | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 188 | 10 | 144 | 188 | 15 | 25 | 21 | 23 | 22 | 72 | 10 | — | — | — | — |
| tZymotic Enteritis (July-Sept.) | 8 | 7 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | — | — | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
| TOTALS | 1990 | 259 | *1743 | *1759 | 91 | 207 | 227 | 224 | 235 | 577 | 32 | 52 | 67 | 29 | 18 |
Cases notified include 54 non-Southwark residents.
*Confirmed cases include 37 Southwark residents notified to other Boroughs. (36 in 1956).
†Certain of these confirmed cases were notified as other diseases, and diagnoses later corrected.
††Contracted abroad.