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Tower Hamlets 1969

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]

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Table: TABLE 8INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS

TABLE 8

INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS

Corrected NotificationsRemoved to HospitalNotified in 1968Notified in 1967
Acute Encephalitis Infective--1-
Post - infectious--2-
Acute Meningitis (from 1.10.68)1792NN
Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic----
Non-paralytic----
Anthrax----
Cholera----
Diphtheria66--
Dysentery78174049
Food Poisoning71305380
Infective Jaundice (from 15.6.68)1243068NN
Leprosy----
Leptospirosis (from 1.10.68)---NN
Mai aria-' -11
Measles1, 201306161,690
Ophthalmia Neonatorum---1
Paratyphoid Fever----
PI ague----
Relapsing Fever----
Scarlet Fever7938391
Smal lpox--
Tetanus (from 1.10.68)"--NN
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary99-10210 2
Non-pulmonary14-1913
Typhoid Fever-2-
Whooping Cough2016689
Yellow Fever (from 1.10.68)---NN
TOTALS:1, 7091261,0552, 116
NN =Not Notifiable

Table: TABLE 9MORBIDITY - First Claims for Sickness BenefitThe number of Claims made to local offices of the Ministry of Social Security covering postal districts E. 1., E. 2. , E. 3., and E. 14. were as follows:-

TABLE 9

MORBIDITY - First Claims for Sickness Benefit

The number of Claims made to local offices of the Ministry of Social Security covering postal districts E. 1., E. 2. , E. 3., and E. 14. were as follows:-

196919681967196919681967
January5, 2547,4014, 411July3, 4363, 3112,625
February5,0533,2793, 797August2, 79 12, 9772, 506
March4, 6964,0792,989Sept ember2, 6493.0374, 10 5
April3, 8023,8323,951October4, 1714, 4563, 584
May2,9193,1932, 844November3, 2863, 7813, 550
June2,8262,7963, 572December6, 6434,0415,191
TOTALS47, & 2646, 18343, 125

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