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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chislehurst]
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Whooping Cough.
Three hundred and nine notifications were received during the
year, as against two hundred and sixty in 1955. Seven of these
cases were sufficiently severe to necessitate hospital treatment.
No deaths from this disease were recorded in the area.
Other Infectious Diseases.
In addition to those previously mentioned, notifications were
received as under:—
Erysipelas 1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 10
(No impairment of vision in any case.)
Puerperal Pyrexia 6