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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 1955

[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: table viiiThe following table shows the total number of corrected notifications, other than tuberculosis, received during the year.

table viii

The following table shows the total number of corrected notifications, other than tuberculosis, received during the year.

DiseaseTotal number of cases notifiedCases removed to hospital
Scarlet Fever10847
Whooping Cough1966
Measles195259
Acute Poliomyelitis
Paralytic30129
Non-Paralytic2523
Pneumonia11041
Dysentery285
Paratyphoid Fever11
Erysipelas215
Meningococcal Infection11
Food Poisoning3011
Puerperal Pyrexia109107
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1816
Malaria (contracted abroad)2 2,6312 353

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*One case originally notified as meningococcal infection was subsequently diagnosed
as paralytic poliomyelitis.
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