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Stoke Newington 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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VI. PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES GENERALLY
DISEASES COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE IN THE
BOROUGH
Acute Poliomyelitis Membranous Croup
Acute Polio-encephalitis Dysentery
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica Erysipelas
Acute Primary Pneumonia Malaria
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Cerebro-spinal Fever Pyrexia
Plague Relapsing Fever
Anthrax Smallpox
Glanders Typhus Fever
Hydrophobia Tuberculosis
Cholera Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
Continued Fever Typhoid or Enteric Fever
Ophthalmia Neonatorum Food Poisoning
Diphtheria
Table IV shows the total number of cases of infectious diseases
(excluding Tuberculosis) notified during the year, the distribution
by age-groups and the number of cases admitted to hospitals.
Notifications.—The total number of cases of infectious diseases,
excluding Tuberculosis, notified during the year was 284, as compared
with 228 for the year 1935.
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