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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 1968

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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Table: PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis)

PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis)

Under 1 yr.1-2-3-4-5-10-15-Over 25 yrs.Total
Scarlet Fever1477133572278
Whooping Cough8599814---53
Measles5272416276754-175
Diphtheria----------
Dysentery11-1121-411
Acute Poliomyelitis:
Paralytic----------
Non-paralytic----------
Meningococcal infection-----—1--1
Under 5 yrs.5-1415-4445-6465 and overTotal
Pneumonia:
Acute Primary5222516
Acute Influenzal--191929
Encephalitis, Acute
Infective------
Post Infectious------
Erysipelas---224
Food Poisoning5-31-9
Puerperal Pyrexia--2--2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum------
Paratyphoid B------
Typhoid------
Smallpox------
Malaria--1--1
Inlective Hepatitis-12133129
NotifiedAdmitted to Rush Green HospitalAdmitted to other Isolation Hospitals.Admitted to other Hospitals
Dysentery11--2
Encephalitis, Acute
Infective----
Post Infectious----
Erysipelas44--
Food Poisoning92-6
Measles1751--
Meningococcal Infection11--
Paratyphoid Fever----
Puerperal Pyrexia2---
Pneumonia:
Acute Primary162--
Acute Influenzal294--
Acute Poliomyelitis:
Paralytic----
Non-paralytic----
Scarlet Fever78---
Typhoid----
Whooping Cough531-1
Malaria1---
Infective Hepatitis296-4