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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
Barnet 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet]
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Measles
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Paratyphoid fever
Plague
Relapsing fever
Scarlet fever
Smallpox
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhus
Whooping cough
Yellow fever
Notifications
The fallowing Table shows the total number of corrected notifications received during the year 1968.
| Scarlet Fever | 23 | (74) |
| Whooping cough | 53 | (136) |
| Measles | 334 | (2694) |
| Dysentery | 71 | (39) |
| Meningococcal Infection | 4 | (1) |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | ||
| Paralytic | — | |
| Non Paralytic | — | |
| Diphtheria | — | |
| Acute Pneumonia | 15 | (21) |
| Acute Encephalitis | ||
| Infective | — | |
| Post Infectious | — | |
| Typhoid Fever | 1 | (5) |
| Paratyphoid | — | |
| Erysipelas | — | (5) |
| Food Poisoning | 31 | (70) |
| Smallpox | — | |
| Tuberculosis | ||
| Respiratory | 109 | (84) |
| Meninges and C.N.S. | — | (4) |
| Other | 21 | (19) |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 72 | (74) |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | (2) |
| Anthrax | — | |
| Cholera | — | |
| Plague | — | |
| Relapsing Fever | ||
| Malaria | — | |
| Membranous Croup | — | |
| 745 | (3228) |
Figures in parenthesis represent notifications for 1967.