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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 1972
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Havering]
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The following table shows the number of cases of infectious and other notifiable diseases which were notified during the year-
| Diseases | Male | Female | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Measles | 201 | 191 | 392 |
| Dysentery | 11(3) | 11(4) | 22(7) |
| Scarlet Fever | 18 | 29 | 47 |
| Whooping Cough | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| Infective Jaundice | 27 | 14 | 41 |
| Tuberculosis: Respiratory | 7 | 5 | 12 |
| Tuberculosis: Other | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Acute Meningitis | 10 | 4 | 14 |
| Acute Encephalitis (Post Infectous | — | 2 | 2 |
| Acute Encephalitis (Infectious) | — | 2 | 2 |
| Food Poisoning | 43(5) | 55(3) | 98(8) |
Figures in ( ) are confirmed cases of food poisoning and dysentery
NOTE:
Five cases of dysentery were brought to our attention other than
by formal notification, involving a teacher and two children from
a special nursery class of maladjusted children in an Infants'
School, also two siblings of one of the affected infants attending
a different school In each case Pathological investigation was
successful in finding the causative organism.
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 although
surveillance was necessary in some cases where holiday-makers
and travellers returned to this country from areas where certain of
these diseases were endemic.
The following table shows the number of specimens submitted
to the Department of Pathology at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford,
and once again my thanks are due to Dr E.Atkinson, Consultant
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