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Southwark 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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| DISEASE | CONFIRMED CASES, SOUTHWARK RESIDENTS diagnosed in or outside Borough - Age Groups, | 1961 | Total | Total | Removed to Hospital 1961 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65- | 1961 | 1960 | ||
| Pneumonia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 16 | 59 | 40 | 2 | |||
| Poliomyelitis: | ||||||||||||||
| Paralytic | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Non-paralytic | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 13 | 9 | 22 | 16 | 22 | |||||||||
| Scabies | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 37 | - | |||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 42 | 9 | 3 | 79 | 73 | 4 | |||
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | |||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 5 | 5 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 40 | 118 | 8 | ||||
| Zymotic Enteritis | ||||||||||||||
| (July-Sept.) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 147 | 306 | 353 | 305 | 287 | 610 | 48 | 54 | 68 | 38 | 24 | 2,240 | 1,395 | 633 |
These figures include 54 Southwark residents notified to other Boroughs. 'Contracted abroad.