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

Tower Hamlets 1972

[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 1971Notified in 1970
Acute Encephalitis
Infective----
Post - infectious----
Acute Meningitis2282
Acute Poliomyelitis
Paralytic----
N on-para lytic----
Anthrax----
Cholera----
Diphtheria----
Dysentery9653936
Food Poisoning2766882
Infective Jaundice502266127
Leptospirosis11--
Malaria11--
Measles578202381,063
Ophthalmia Neonatorum---2
Plague----
Relapsing Fever----
Scarlet Fever6935048
Smallpox----
Tetanus----
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary12376101
Non-pulmonary201817
Typhoid Fever--23
Whooping Cough13254138
Yellow Fever--
TOTALS:980626191, 619

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

197219711970197219711970
January4,7535, 0746, 432July2, 8232,3712, 557
February3,1072,6033, 670August2,0942, 6982, 607
March2,7663, 8924, 074September3, 0152, 3833,410
April3, 0032,3503,447October2, 9392, 7043,265
May2,3363,0502, 710November3,3703,4573,145
June2,4422,3872, 934December4, 6092, 7183,406
TOTALS:37,25735, 68741, 657

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