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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

Enfield 1964

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Enfield]

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20
HOSPITAL FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES
During the year, the following cases were admitted from Enfield
to South Lodge Hospital.
Glandular fever 4
Dysentery 4
Measles 7
Scarlet Fever 9
Gastro-enteritis 12
Upper Respiratory Infection 1
Pneumonia 9
Erysipelas 2
Whooping Cough 10
B.Coli Infection 1
Puerperal pyrexia 1
Infective hepatitis 6
Malaria 1
Mumps 3
Others 18
88
DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION
1,853 children were immunised for the first time and 2,673
received reinforcing doses.
DIPHTHERIA
For the sixteenth year in succession no case of Diphtheria has
occurred in the Borough.
WHOOPING COUGH IMMUNISATION
1,561 children were immunised for the first time and 1,138
received reinforcing doses.
TETANUS IMMUNISATION
1,917 children were immunised for the first time and 1,859
received reinforcing doses.
POLIOMYELITIS IMMUNISATION
1,951 children were immunised for the first time and 1,522
received reinforcing doses.