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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
Barking 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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THE PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND
OTHER DISEASES
Notification
The following is a summary of the cases notified during the year:—
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis 9
Dysentery 17
Erysipelas 11
Food Poisoning 5
Measles 1,350
Meningococcal Infection 1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1
Paratyphoid Fever 1
Pemphigus Neonatorum 1
Pneumonia 48
Puerperal Pyrexia 18
Scabies 11
Scarlet Fever 104
Whooping Cough 100
No difficulty was met in arranging for the admission of cases to hospital,
and most cases went to Ilford Isolation and Rush Green Hospitals.
Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis
Of the nine cases notified, eight developed paralytic symptomsunfortunately
the disease proved fatal in one case.
Diphtheria
I am happy to record again that not one single case of diphtheria
burred in Barking.
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