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 Enfield]
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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES
INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND SCHOOLS
1955. | 1954. | |
---|---|---|
Number of children notified by Head Teachers to be absent from School due to :_ (a) Infectious Disease or suspected Infectious Disease | 454 | 416 |
(b) Contact with Infectious Disease | 15 | 8 |
Number of School children notified by General Practitioners as suffering from Infectious Disease | 1320 | 314 |
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEARS 1954 AND 1955.
1955 | 1954 | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | Treated in Hospital | Deaths. | No. | Treated in Hospital | Deaths | |
Smallpox | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Cholera_Plague | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Diphtheria (inc. Membranous Croup) | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Diphtheria Carriers | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Erysipelas | 11 | _ | _ | 20 | 2 | _ |
Scarlet Fever | 54 | 16 | _ | 132 | 51 | _ |
Typhus Fever | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Typhoid Fever | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Paratyphoid Fever | 3 | 3 | _ | _ | ||
Relapsing Fever | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Continued Fever f | _ | _ | _ | _ | ||
Puerperal Pyrexia | 30 | 28 | _ | 44 | 43 | _ |
Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 2 | 1 | _ | _ | _ |
Poliomyelitis (Paralytic and Non_Paralytic) .. | 20 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 3 | _ |
Acute_Encephalitis | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 10 | 9 | _ | 18 | 18 | _ |
Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 97 | _ | 14 | 85 | _ | 18 |
Other forms of Tuberculosis | 12 | _ | 1 | 10 | _ | _ |
Food Poisoning | 9 | _ | _ | 16 | 2 | _ |
Malaria | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ |
Pneumonia | 57 | 5 | 46 | 54 | 1 | 35 |
Dysentery | 9 | _ | _ | 167 | 1 | _ |
Measles | 2198 | 2 | _ | 37 | _ | _ |
Whooping Cough | 15 | _ | _ | 204 | 6 | 1 |
Totals | 2527 | 82 | 65 | 790 | 127 | 54 |