Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Dagenham]
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Notified | Admitted to Isolation Hospital, Rush Green | Admitted to other Isolation Hospitals | Admitted to other Hospitals | Registered Deaths | |
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Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Dysentery | 18 | 1 | — | 1 | — |
Encephalitis, Acute | — | — | — | — | — |
Enteric Fever | — | — | — | — | — |
Erysipelas | 14 | 5 | 2 | — | — |
food Poisoning | 11 | 4 | 2 | 1 | — |
Malarii | 4 | 4 | — | — | — |
Measles | 109 | 4 | 1 | — | — |
Meningococcal Infection | 6 | 5 | 1 | — | 2 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 9 | — | — | 1 | — |
Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | — | I | — | — |
Pemphigus | — | — | — | — | — |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 8 | 1 | — | ;—. | — |
Pneumonia:— | |||||
Acute Influenzal | 7 | 2 | — | 1 | — |
Acute Primary | 30 | 2 | 1 | — | — |
Poliomyelitis, Acute:— | |||||
Paralytic | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
Non-Paralytic | 2 | 2 | — | — | — |
Scarlet Fever | 242 | 12 | 7 | 1 | — |
Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — |
Whooping Cough | 273 | 7 | 2 | 1 | I |
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION
The following is a summary of the work carried out during the year:—
Age (in years) at final injection | Children immunised Without preliminary testing | Children who received a boosting dose |
---|---|---|
Under 1 | 480 | — |
1—4 | 401 | 13 |
5 — 9 | 69 | 548 |
10 — 14 | 11 | 235 |
Total | 961 | 796 |
Immunisation by General Practitioners. | ||
Age (in yean) at final injection | Children immunised Without preliminary testing | Children who received a boosting dose |
Under 1 | 214 | — |
1 — 4 | 221 | 35 |
5 — 9 | 27 | 217 |
10 — 14 | 6 | 54 |
Total | 468 | 306 |
WHOOPING COUGH IMMUNISATION
The number of children who received protective doses against
Whooping Cough was 889, the majority of these being under the
age of four years.