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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
Havering 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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SECTION IV
GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICE
This section contains statistics regarding the notification
and control of infectious diseases, together with details supplied
by Mr. M.F.G. Randall, Chief Public Health Inspector, on the
environmental health services.
At the end of the year the inspectorate consisted of 18
Public Health Inspectors, two Meat Inspectors, three pupil
Public Health Inspectors, two Rodent Officers, and four Shops
and Offices Inspectors.
| Disease | Male | Female | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acute Encephalitis | - | 1 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 7(5) | 9(5) | 16(10) |
| Food Poisoning (or suspected food poisoning) | 62(11) | 16(17) | 123(28) |
| Infective Jaundice | 16 | 7 | 23 |
| Measles | 175 | 176 | 351 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 1 | 1 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Scarlet Fever | 76 | 64 | 140 |
| Tuberculosis: Respiratory | 41 | 16 | 57 |
| Other | 2 | 7 | 9 |
| Whooping Cough | 55 | 76 | 131 |
| Erysipelas * | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Pneumonia * | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Peurperal Pyrexia * | - | 2 | 2 |
| Figures in are confirmed cases of food poisoning and dysentery. * As from 1st October, 1968, these deseases were no longer notifiable | |||
No cases of Poliomyelitis, Diphtheria, Smallpox, Anthrax
or Typhoid Fever were notified during the year.
However, the number of Tuberculosis cases notified showed
an increase over the previous year, respiratory cases increasing
from 40 to 57 and non-respiratory from 2 to 9. The number of
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