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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 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hayes]
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SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
DISEASES
(a) General.
Apart from the deaths resulting from tuberculosis and
pneumonia there was no fatality from infectious disease during
the year.
(b) Scabies.
Ten males (adult) and twenty-three females and children
were treated for scabies during the year No case of infestation
with lice was reported. The scabies clinic is held at the Hayes
Cottage Hospital and is open twice weekly for females and children
and when required for males (adult).
(c) Diphtheria Immunisation.
Hayes Cottage Hospital (to 5th July, 1948 only):
Number of sessions 19
Number of attendances 386
Number of prophylactics given 357
Number of post-schicks and re-tests 15
Number of post-schicks and re-tests NEG 14
Number of post-schicks and re-tests POS Nil
The total number of children immunised up to the 31st
December, 1948 was 10,549.
| Diseases | Total Cases Notified | Total Deaths |
|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 81 | — |
| Diphtheria | — | — |
| Pneumonia | 50 | 32 (all forms) |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | — | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 | — |
| Erysipelas | 3 | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | — |
| Measles | 551 | — |
| Whooping Cough | 370 | — |
| Dysentery | 3 | — |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | — |
| Malaria | 1* | — |
| Polioencephalitis | 1 | — |
| Enteric Fever | — | — |
| Para-typhoid Fever | — | — |
| Food Poisoning | 2 | - |
* Non-civilian.
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