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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
Hendon 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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28.
FINAL DIAGNOSIS.
Of the 548 fever cases which were discharged or died during 1944,
7 patients who were transferred to St. Alband Hospital have been excluded
from the table of final diagnosis and from all subsequent figures in the
report. The final diagnosis in respect of the remaining 541 completed
cases was as follows
TABLE XX.
| Discharged | Died | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | 9 | - | 9 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 291 | * 1 | 292 | |
| Ø | Scarlet Fever and Chicken Pox | 5 | — | 5 |
| Ø | Scarlet Fever and Rubella | 2 | - | 2 |
| Ø | Scarlet Fever end Scabies | 2 | - | 2 |
| Whooping Cough | 37 | + 2 | 39 | |
| Ø | Measles and Whooping Cough | 1 | - | 1 |
| Measles | 8 | - | 8 | |
| Rubella | 42 | - | 42 | |
| Rubella and acute appendicitis | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Chicken pox | 11 | - | 11 | |
| Chicken Pox and acute appendicitis | 1 | - | 1 | |
| (Mumps | 3 | - | 3 | |
| Mastoiditis | 2 | - | 2 | |
| cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 1 | _ | 1 | |
| Encephelo-Myelitis following Rubella | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Oedema face and neck following attempted strangulation | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Ø | Dysentery (b. Sonnei) Dysentery (b, Sonnei) and | 27 | - | 27 |
| Rubella | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Enteritis | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Gastritis and Pyrexia | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Infective Hepatitis | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Catarrhal Jaundice | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Food Poisoning | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Erysipelas | 15 | - | 15 | |
| Cellulitis of leg | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Sulphanilamide Rash | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Eczema | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Impetigo | 4 | — | 4 | |
| Ø | Scabies and Impetigo | l | - | 1 |
| Erythema Iris | l | - | 1 | |
| Lobar Pneumonia | 3 | - | 3 | |
| Acute Bronchitis | 2 | — | 2 | |
| Influenza | 4 | - | 4 | |
| Quinsy | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Tonsillitis Toxaemia following Strept. | 34 | — | 34 | |
| Tonsillitis | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Strept. Stomatitis and Gingivitis Acute Streptococcal infection | 1 | - | 1 | |
| following septic scratch Rheumatic Fever following | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Marasmus | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Cold | 1 | — | 1 | |
| Admitted with mother for nursing purposes | 3 | - | 3 | |
| n.a.d. | 5 | - | 5 | |
| TOTALS | 537 | 4 | 541 | |
Ø Concurrent infection on admission:
+ Out-district cases.
* Died of rupture of congenital
aortic aneurism.