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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 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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Table: SECTION B:PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.TABLE VII.The following table shows the total number of notifications, other than Tuberculosis, received during the year:—

SECTION B:

PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.

TABLE VII.

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.
Scarlet Fever216105
Whooping Cough50829
Acute Poliomyelitis:—
Paralytic1111
Non-Paralytic77
Measles86731
Pneumonia11441
Dysentery283
Enteric or Typhoid Fever54
Erysipelas236
Meningococcal Infection98
Food Poisoning93
Puerperal Pyrexia138137
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3030
TOTAL1965415