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Dagenham 1951

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]

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NotifiedAdmitted to Isolation Hospital, Rush GreenAdmitted to other Isolation HospitalsAdmitted to other HospitalsDeaths Registered
Diphtheria----
Dysentery2841
Encephalitis, Acute
Enteric Fever
Erysipelas52
Food Poisoning26131
Malaria1-1
Measles1,40714331
Meningococcal Infection33-
Opththalmia Neonatorum5
Paratyphoid Fever22
Pemphigus
Puerperal Pyrexia1416
Pneumonia.-
Acute Influenzal82-
Acute Primary373215 47
Poliomyelitis, Acute-----
Paralytic
Non-paralytic66
Scarlet Fever1512614-
Smallpox
Whooping Cough4921244-

DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION
The following is a summary of the work carried out during
the year:-
Number of SCHOOL children immunised without
preliminary testing 96
Number of PRE-SCHOOL children immunised without
preliminary testing 974
Number of SCHOOL children who received a
boosting dose 850
Immunisation by General Practitioners.
Number of SCHOOL children immunised without
preliminary testing 18
Number of PRE-SCHOOL children immunised with
out preliminary testing 258
Number of SCHOOL children who received a
boosting dose 119
WHOOPING COUGH IMMUNISATION
The number of children who received protective doses against
Whooping Cough was 96, the majority of these being between the
ages of one and four years.