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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 1971
[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 9 (5)
Acute poliomyelitis - (-)
Anthrax - (-)
Cholera - (-)
Diphtheria - (-)
Dysentery 25 (33)
Food poisoning 87 (94)
Infective Hepatitis 43 (58)
Leprosy - (-)
Leptospirosis - (-)
Malaria 7 (2)
Measles 1101 (1363)
Ophthalmia neonatorum 1 (5)
Paratyphoid fever - (2)
Plague - (-)
Relapsing fever - (-)
Scarlet fever 31 (81)
Smallpox - (-)
Tetanus - (-)
Tuberculosis
Respiratory 76 (59)
Meninges and CNS 2 (1)
Other 30 (24)
Typhoid fever 2 (4)
Typhus - (-)
Whooping Cough 55 (81)
Yellow fever - (-)
1469 (1812)
Figures in parenthesis represent notifications for 1970
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