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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March June | Sept. | Dec. | Total | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | 15 | 29 | 8 | 19 | 71 |
Whooping Cough | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 16 |
Measles | 94 | 25 | 21 | 323 | 463 |
Poliomyelitis paralytic | - | - | 1 | _ | 1 |
non paralytic | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
Meningococcal infection | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 |
Encephalitis infection | - | - | - | - | - |
post infectious | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 131 | 156 | 18 | 84 | 389 |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 3 | 3 | - | - | 6 |
Puerperal pyrexia | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 17 |
Pneumonia | 14 | 20 | 8 | 14 | 56 |
Pood poisoning | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 23 |
Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Scabies | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
Zymotic enteritis | - | - | 3 | - | 3 |
IMMUNISATION
I am indebted to Dr. W.H. Wallace, Divisional Medical Officer of the London County Council, for the following details.
Welfare Centres | Doctors | Total | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ages: 0-5 | 5-14 | 0-5 | 5-14 | ||
Diphtheria | 8 | 24 | 32 | ||
Diphtheria/Whooping Cough | 1 | 1 | |||
Diphtheria/Whooping Cough and Tetanus | 911 | 4 | 248 | 4 | 1167 |
Diphtheria and Tetanus | 14 | 43 | - | 4 | 61 |
Whooping Cough (all ages) | - | - | - | - | - |
'Boosters' (all ages) | 818 | 212 | 1030 | ||
Smallpox, Primary | 1098 | 1080 | 863 | 1703 | 4744 |
Adults | 1203 | 2426 | 3629 | ||
Smallpox, Revaccination | 45 | 727 | 55 | 854 | 1681 |
Adults | 2867 | 3052 | 5919 |