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Tower Hamlets 1971

[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 1970Notified in 1969
Acute Encephalitis
Infective----
Post - infectious----
Acute Meningitis88217
Acute Poliomyelitis
Paralytic----
Non-paralytic----
Anthrax----
Cholera----
Diphtheria--6*
Dysentery3993678
Food Poisoning68258271
Infective Jaundice6610127124
Leptospirosis----
Malaria----
Measles238111,0631,201
Ophthalmia Neonatorum--2-
Plague----
Relapsing Fever----
Scarlet Fever5014879
Smallpox----
Tetanus----
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary7610199
Non-pulmonary181714
Typhoid Fever223-
Whooping Cough54313820
Yellow Fever----
TOTALS619691,6191,709

Table: TABLE 9

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 E1., E. 2., E. 3., and E. 14. were as follows;-
197119701969197119701969
January5,0746, 4325,254July 2,3712,5573,436
February2,6033,6705,053August 2,6982,6072,791
March3,8924,0744,696September 2,3833,4102,649
April2,3503,4473,802October 2,7043,2654,171
May3,0502,7102,919November 3,4573,1453,286
June2,3872,9342,826December 2,7183,4066,643
TOTALS 35,68741,65747,526