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Barking 1925

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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18
SECTION 3
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The following table shows the number of notifications of
infectious disease received during 1925 :—

TABLE 1.

Males.Females.TotalTotal cases rem'd to Hos.Deaths
Scarlet Fever293160581
Diphtheria294675702
Puerperal Septicemia .444
Pneumonia (Acute primary and influenzal)37215825 (All Forms)
Erysipelas1081831
Ophthalmia Neonatorum8412*1
Encephalitis Lethargica
Enteric
Cerebro Spinal Fever2212
Anterio Poliomyelitis11
Totals11611423013731

* Baby born in maternity ward of hospital.
The following table i;ives particulars of the various infectious
diseases notified during the preceding 5 years, together with the
notification rate per 1,000 population, and the average for the
quinquennium ending the 31st December, 1925.