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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 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
All medical practitioners are required to notify the Medical Officer of Health, on
certificates which are provided free of charge, of any of their patients who, in their
opinion, are suffering from any of the following infectious diseases.
Acute encephalitis
Acute gastro enteritis
Acute meningitis
Acute poliomyelitis
Anthrax
Cholera
Diphtheria
Dysentery (amoebic or bacillary)
Food poisoning
Infective jaundice
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Malaria
Measles
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Paratyphoid fever
Plague
Relapsing fever
Scarlet fever
Small-pox
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhoid fever
Typhus
Whooping cough
Yellow fever
| Disease | 1967 | 1968 | 1969 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet fever | 1.56 | 112 | 125 |
| Whooping cough | 170 | 257 | 37 |
| Acute poliomyelitis and acute polio encephalitis | — | 2 | — |
| Measles | 2,881 | 556 | 2,115 |
| Diphtheria | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 231 | 195 | 201 |
| Meningococcal infection | — | 6 | 13 |
| Pneumonia (acute primary and acute influenzal) | 37 | 29 | — |
| Paratyphoid fevers | — | — | 2 |
| Erysipelas | 8 | 5 | — |
| Food poisoning | 64 | 157 | 168 |
| Tuberculosis Respiratory system | 149 | 130 | 148 |
| Other forms | 19 | 12 | 14 |
| Malaria | 1 | — | — |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 122 | 69 | — |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 | 2 | |
| Acute gastro enteritis | 1,064 | 2,031 | 1,755 |
| Infective jaundice | — | 13 | 43 |