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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
Hayes and Harlington 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]
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Canned Meats
Corned Beef 131½ lbs.
Corned Mutton 3/4 lb.
Luncheon meat (Spam,
etc.) 7½ lbs.
Meat and Vegetable 36 lbs.
Ox Tongue 6 lbs.
Pork Sausage meat 19¼ lbs.
Potted meat 11 ozs.
Steak and kidney 1 lb.
Stewed steak 55 lb
Sheep tongue 3/4 lb.
Vienna sausages 5 lbs.
SECTION F
prevalence of and control over, infectious
diseases
Scabies.—Two clinics weekly are held at the Hayes Cottage
Hospital for treatment of scabies and infestation with lice.
The number of scabies cases in 1946 is about half of that for
1945. Only three cases of infestation with lice were reported.
Diphtheria Immunisation
Number of sessions 147
Number of prophylactics given 3052
Number of post-schicks and re-tests 132
Percentage of failure to immunise 5%
Percentage successfully immunised 95%
Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) during the
y ear , 1946
| Diseases | Total Cases Notified. | Total Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 54 | — |
| Diphtheria | 9 | 4 |
| Pneumonia | 35 | 29 (all forms) |
| Cerebro-spinal fever | 7 | — |
| Peurperal pyrexia | 14 | — |
| Erysipelas | 8 | — |
| Ophthalmia Neontorum | — | — |
| Measles | 97 | — |
| Whooping Cough | 180 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 2 | — |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | — |
| Malaria | 2 | — |
| Poliencephalitis | 1 | — |