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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 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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Table: The notifications of, and deaths from, the notifiable diseases other than Tuberculosis are classified in the following table according to the Wards in which they occurred:—

The notifications of, and deaths from, the notifiable diseases other than Tuberculosis are classified in the following table according to the Wards in which they occurred:—

DISEASES.Notifications.Deaths.
Ward.No Address.Whole Borough.Ward.No. Address.Whole Bough.
1234567812341 5678
1.Small-pox--------------------
2.Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever5844803696303081434——111—12—6
3.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup5491014582632869—4871111—3—1—8
4.Enteric or Typhoid Fever312—1112—11—--————1—1
5.Puerperal Fever-2331----9---------1
6.„ Pyrexia64133114—23—-————————
7.Erysipelas151314914358-81——22-1—117
8.Cerebro-spinal Meningitis-—1—1————2———11————2
9.Anterior Poliomyelitis and Polioencephalitis--1--1---2---------1
10.Ophthalmia Neonatorum91842133—†31----------
11.Encephalitis Lethargica-————————————————1—1
12.Acute Influenza and Influenzal Pneumonia910865512—46—111———1—‡25
13.Acute Primary Pneumonia3911262126221323118221141————†9
14.Malaria————1—174—22------1——1
15.Dysentery66102311163—57——11———1—3
16.Measles5364065672964503156434'-297524232211—17
17.German Measles66143126526—78——————-———
18.Food Poisonoing-----1174—22----------
Totals73755383642869746020154824462579145839182

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† For Pneumonia deaths, see Table on pages 31 and 32.
‡ Excluding one case which came to notice after death.