Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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SECTION B :
PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
TABLE IV.
Notifications.
The following table shows the total number of notifications other than Tuberculosis, received during the year :—
Disease. | Total Number of Cases Notified. | Cases Removed to Hospital. | Total Number of Deaths among Notified Cases. |
---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | 147 | 75 | — |
Whooping Cough | 604 | 13 | — |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 6 | 7* | 1 |
Measles | 1618 | 21 | — |
Pneumonia | 213 | 43 | — |
Dysentery | 74 | 22 | — |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 106 | 105 | — |
Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 1 | 1 | — |
Paratyphoid Fever | 4 | 3 | — |
Erysipelas | 21 | 9 | — |
Meningococcal Infections | 5 | 4 | |
Food Poisoning | ,22 | 2 | — |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 21 | 21 | — |
TOTAL | 2842 | 326 | — |
* One of these cases was not confirmed.
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