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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
Acton 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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TABLE 6.
CASES REMOVED TO HOSPITAL.
| Total Notified. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Small-Pox | 1 | 1 |
| scarlet Fever | 382 | 537 |
| Diphtheria | 134 | 151 |
| Enteric Fever | 1 | 1 |
| Paratyphoid B. | 2 | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 14 | 41 |
| Puerperal Fever | 3 | 3 |
| Puerperal Septicaemia | 1 | 1 |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 2 | 2 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 5 |
| Erysipelas | 7 | 19 |
| Acute Anterior Poliomylitis | 1 | 1 |
TABLE 7.
BIRTHS.
Live Births.
| Male. | Female. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 483 | 487 | ||||
| Legitimate | 465 | 467 | ||||
| Illegitimate | 18 | 20 | ||||
| Still Births. | ||||||
| Total | 26 | 17 | ||||
| Legitimate | 25 | 17 | ||||
| Illegitimate | 1 | — | ||||
| Notified Live Births. | ||||||
| Total. | N. East. | N. West. | S. East. | S. West. | ||
| Total Births notified in the district | 657 | 208 | 146 | 98 | 205 | |
| Notifications received from other districts | 298 | 91 | 75 | 55 | 77 | |
| Births registered but not previously notified | 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | |
| 957 | 300 | 222 | 153 | 272 | ||
| Notified Still Births. | ||||||
| Inside | 15. | Outside | 19 | Total 34 | ||
| Notifications were received from: — | ||||||
| Doctors and Parents | 685 | |||||
| Midwives | 304 | |||||