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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 1956

[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 Fever13650
Whooping Cough1358
Measles2954
Acute Poliomyelitis
Paralytic87
Non-Paralytic53
Diphtheria11
Pneumonia7938
Dysentery547
Paratyphoid Fever66
Erysipelas111
Meningococcal Infection22
Food Poisoning243
Puerperal Pyrexia113112
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1313
TOTAL882255