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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 1971
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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INFECTIOUS AND OTHER NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
The following table shows the number of cases of infectious and other notifiable diseases which were notified during theyear: —
| Diseases | Male | Female | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Measles | 286 | 294 | 580 |
| Dysentery | 3 (3) | 2 (2) | 5 (5) |
| Scarlet Fever | 52 | 65 | 117 |
| Whooping Cough | 41 | 50 | 91 |
| Infective Jaundice | 26 | 20 | 46 |
| Tuberculosis: Respiratory | 11 | 4 | 15 |
| Tuberculosis: Other | — | 3 | 3 |
| AcuteMeningitis | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| Acute Encephalitis (Post Infectious) | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Acute Encephalitis (Infectious) | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Food Poisoning | 105 (6) | 106 (3) | 211 (9) |
| Figures in () are confirmed cases offood poisoning and dysentery | |||
Note: Five cases of food poisoning were brought to our attention
other than by formal notification and in each case pathological
investigation was successful in.finding the causative organism.
Two males and three females were involved.
No cases of Poliomyelitis, Anthrax, Cholera, Diphtheria,
Leptospirosis, Malaria, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Paratyphoid
Fever, Plague, Relapsing Fever, Smallpox, Tetanus, Typhoid
Fever, Typhus or Yellow Fever were notified during the year.
Surveillance was, however, necessary in many cases where
holiday-makers and travellers returned to this country from areas
where some of these diseases were endemic.
Our annual review of leprosy patients revealed that the
two notified cases had been reclassified as "arrested and cured"
and their names were deleted from the central leprosy register
maintained by the Department of Health and Social Security.
The only disease which showed a marked increase was
scarlet fever which produced an additional 16 notifications on
the previous year's figure. There was a considerable decrease in
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