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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 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet]
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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
The following Table shows the total number of corrected notifications received during the year: —
| Acute encephalitis | _ | (-) | |
| Acute meningitis | 4 | (4) | |
| Acute poliomyelitis | — | (-) | |
| Anthrax | — | (-) | |
| Cholera | — | (-) | |
| Diphtheria | — | (-) | |
| Dysentery | 228 | (71) | |
| Food poisoning | 63 | (31) | |
| Infective Jaundice | 51 | (21) | |
| Leprosy | - | (-) | |
| Leptospirosis | - | (-) | |
| Malaria | — | (-) | |
| Measles | 672 | (334) | |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 5 | (-) | |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 6 | (-) | |
| Plague | — | (-) | |
| Relapsing Fever | - | (-) | |
| Scarlet Fever | 61 | (23) | |
| Smallpox | - | (-) | |
| Tetanus | — | (-) | |
| Tuberculosis | |||
| Respiratory | 80 | (109) | |
| Meninges and C.N.S. | - | (-) | |
| Other | 33 | (21) | |
| Typhoid Fever | 2 | (1) | |
| Typhus | - | (-) | |
| Whooping Cough | 30 | (53) | |
| Yellow Fever | - | (-) | |
| * Acute pneumonia | _ | (15) | |
| * Puerperal pyrexia | (72) | ||
| 1235 | (755) | ||
Figures in parenthesis represent notifications for 1968.
* No longer notifiable
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