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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
Stoke Newington 1937
[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
Acute Polio-encephalitis
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
Cerebro-spinal Fever
Plague
Anthrax
Glanders
Hydrophobia
Cholera
Continued Fever
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Diphtheria
Membranous Croup
Dysentery
Erysipelas
Malaria
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia
Relapsing Fever
Smallpox
Typhus Fever
Tuberculosis
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
Typhoid or Enteric Fever
Food Poisoning
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 265, as compared
with 284 for the year 1936.
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