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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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES COMPARATIVE TABLE OF SOUTHWARK CASES FROM 1953 to 1963
| DISEASES | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthrax | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 8 |
| Dysentery | 175 | 163 | 231 | 716 | 37 | 230 | 341 | 686 | 298 | 389 | 415 |
| Encephalitis: | |||||||||||
| Infective | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Post Infectious | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 12 | 12 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 6 |
| Food Poisoning | 20 | 27 | 26 | 9 | 21 | 42 | 27 | 75 | 26 | 23 | 19 |
| Malaria | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 1075 | 233 | 2142 | 447 | 1179 | 574 | 1029 | 322 | 1671 | 463 | 911 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| Paratyphoid | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 19 | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 68 | 54 | 86 | 64 | 70 | 51 | 80 | 40 | 59 | 56 | 89 |
| Poliomyelitis: | |||||||||||
| Paralytic | 6 | 1 | 41 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Non-paralytic | 1 | - | 23 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 46 | 76 | 39 | 38 | 49 | 30 | 31 | 16 | 22 | 17 | 5 |
| Scabies | 13 | 20 | 33 | 38 | 35 | 19 | 21 | 37 | 24 | 7 | 4 |
| Scarlet Fever | 160 | 96 | 185 | 259 | 142 | 157 | 97 | 73 | 79 | 71 | 79 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 372 | 229 | 141 | 144 | 188 | 64 | 66 | 118 | 40 | 16 | 72 |
| Zymotic Enteritis (July-Sept.) | 19 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| TOTALS | 1978 | 933 | 2971 | 1743 | 1759 | 1209 | 1729 | 1395 | 2240 | 1061 | 1611 |