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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

Chislehurst 1941

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]

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Table: CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1941.

CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1941.

Disease.Number of Cases Notified.Total cases removed to Hospital.Deaths
At all Ages.at, age–years.
Under 1 year1 and under 2 years2 and under 3 years3 and under 4 years4 and under 5 years5 and under 10 years10 and under 15 years15 and under 25 years25 and under 45 years45 and under 65 years65 and over
Scarlet Fever61...1314331162......51...
Diphtheria57...32151814113......506
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever3.....................12......2...
Erysipelas232..................31062......
Puerperal Pyrexia,3.....................12............
Pneumonia643375282114172...29*
Measles1652501161541531958915919131184
Whooping Cough35428344841411477251......3
Ophthalmia Neonatorum11....................................
Poliomyelitis2......1......1.....................
Cerebro-Spinal Fever15...............4163......53
Dysentery5...............1......31.........
Total224084157215202247110394505726511645
all forms