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Hendon 1944

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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The following Table shows the number of cases of Diphtheria, death from that disease, end the accumulated total of children immunised;-

TABLE IV.

YearNo. of Cases of Diphtheria Notified.No. of Deaths from Diphtheria.Accumulated total of inmiunised children.
19291567-
19301927-
19311938-
19321437-
19331574-
19341583-
1935138927
1936862130
19371217381
19381954725
193915031124
19407031729
19415815868
194238211068
194331215506
194417-16970
of these the diagnosis of diphtheria was confirmed in only 9 cases.

50 cases of dysentery were notified. These in the main were of a
mild character. In 35 cases of this disease which were treated at the
Isolation Hospital the Sonne bacillus was the casual organism. This condition
which consists of a general gastro-intestinal upset, is usually of short duration
and the patient, unless debilitated or at the extremes of life, normally makes an
uninterrupted recovery, but there is considerable ground for believing that this
type of dysentery is much more prevalent than the actual notifications would suggest.