London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
City of Westminster 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Infantile Mortality.
| Meningitis and convulsions | 1 | 1 | — |
| Diarrhoea and Enteritis | 3 | 3 | — |
| Congenital malformation, prematurity and other neo-natal causes | 16 | 14 | 2 |
| Want of attention | 1 | — | 1 |
| Broncho-pneumonia | 11 | 10 | 1 |
| Bronchitis | 3 | 3 | — |
| Accident | 2 | 2 | — |
| Other causes | 5 | 5 | — |
| 42 | 38 | 4 |
Infectious Disease.
| Polio-encephalitis | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Polio-myelitis | 28 | 28 | 1 |
| Diphtheria | 2 | 2 | — |
| Erysipelas | 6 | 1 | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 48 | 32 | 1 |
| Enteric Fever | 1 | 1 | — |
| Paratyphoid | 1 | 1 | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 | 4 | — |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 | 1 | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | — |
| Measles | 635 | 66 | — |
| Pneumonia | 15 | 2 | 21* |
| Dysentery | 16 | 10 • | — |
| Whooping Cough | 91 | 24 , | 1 |
| Malaria | 1 | 1 | •— |
| Scabies | 21 | 1 | — |
| Food Poisoning | 8 | 2 | — |
| * Includes deaths of unnotified cases. | |||
Corrected Diagnosis:—
Whooping Cough, 1; Measles, 2; Polio-myelitis, 2.; Non-notifiable diseases—Removed to hospital:—
| German Measles | 3 |
| Chickenpox | 9 |
| Mumps | 11 |
| Gastro-enteritis | 54 |
| Lobar Pneumonia | 1 |
| Tonsillitis | 12 |