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Barking 1926

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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(II) NON-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

The most important of these are measles, whooping cough and summer diarrhoea. There were no serious epidemics of these diseases, and the deaths registered were as follows:—

Measles7
Whooping Cough1
Summer Diarrhœa15

Measles and Whooping Cough.—Cases amongst school children
are reported to the School Medical Officer by school teachers,
attendance officers and nurses, appropriate action being taken as
regards exclusion and supervision of contracts.

ISOLATION HOSPITAL.

The following is the table of admissions, etc., in respect of infectious diseases during 1926:—

Disease.in Hospital January. 1st, 1926.Admitted during the year.Died.DischargedIn Hospital Dec. 31st. 1926.
Scarlet Fever1011511510
Diphtheria1552*2605
Pneumonia8341
Puerperal Fever1‡213
Measles
Chicken Pox
Mumps
Epidemic Diarrhœa211
Enteric Fever211
Ophthalmia Neonatorum11
Erysipelas22
Cerebrospinal Meningitis
Tuberculosis11

* I death certified due to Tb. Broncho Pneumonia,
† I case transferred from Maternity Ward,
‡ Case diagnosed as Phthisis.