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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 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Measles | 3 | 19 | 26 | 24 | 22 | 119 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 234 | |||
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | |||
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | 5 | 10 | 40 | 14 | 4 | - | 73 | |||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Acute Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Acute Poliomyelitis:- | |||||||||||||
| Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||
| Whooping Cough | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 3 | 1 | - | 48 | |||
| Under 5 yrs | 5-14 | 15-44 | 45 - 64 | 65 and over | TOTAL | ||||||||
| Encephalitis, Acute:- | |||||||||||||
| Xnfective | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Post Infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Leptospirosis | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Typhoid | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | |||||||
| Food Poisoning | - | 1 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 10 | |||||||
| Malaria | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | ||||||||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | - | - | - | - | 6 | |||||||
| Infective Hepatitis | 1 | 18 | 27 | 9 | 2 | 57 | |||||||
| Tetanus | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||