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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

Tower Hamlets 1970

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

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Table: TABLE8INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS

TABLE8

INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFICATIONS

Corrected NotificationsRemoved to HospitalNotified in 1969Notified in 1968
Acute Encephalitis
Infective---1
Post - infectious---2
Acute Meningitis (from 1.10.68)22172
Acute Poliomyelitis
Paralytic----
Non-paralytic----
Anthrax----
Cholera----
Diphtheria--6-
Dysentery36167840
Food Poisoning82127153
Infective Jaundice (from 15. 6. 68)1271112468
Leptospirosis (from 1.10.68)---
Malaria---1
Measles1, 063381,201616
Ophthalmia Neonatorum22--
Plague----
Relapsing Fever----
Scarlet Fever4827983
Smallpox----
Tetanus (from 1.10.68)----
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary10199102
Non-pulmonary171419
Typhoid Fever33-2
Whooping Cough13872066
Yellow Fever (from 1. 10. 68)____
TOTALS:1, 619931, 7091,055

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:-

197019691968197019691968
January6,4325,2547,401 July2,5573,4363,311
February3,6705,0533,279 August2,6072,7912,977
March4,0744,6964,079 September3,4102,6493,037
April3,4473,8023, 832 October3,2654,1714,456
May2,7102,9193,193 November3,1453,2863,781
June2,9342,8262,796 December3,4066,6434,041
TOTALS41,65747,52646,183