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Barking 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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2. NOTIFICATION TABLES.
The following table shows the number of notifications of infectious diseases
(other than Tuberculosis) received during 1935 :—
TABLE I.
Disease.
Males.
Females.
Total.
Total eases
removed
to
Hospital.
Deaths.
Smallpox
–
–
–
–
–
Scarlet Fever
210
238
448
409
1
Diphtheria
138
140
278
276
14
Enteric Fever (including
Para-typhoid Fever)
2
3
5
5
–
Puerperal Pyrexia
–
8
8
7
–
Pneumonia:
Acute Influenzal
44
49
21
24
4
Acute Primary
67
11
Following Measles
5
–
Erysipelas
13
25
38
21
1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
10
5
15
4
–
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis
–
3
3
2
–
Food Poisoning
2
1
3
–
–
Acute Polio-Encephalitis
–
–
–
–
–
Pemphigus Neonatorum
3
3
6
–
–
Totals
422
475
897
748
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