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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 1957

[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 Fever15830
Whooping Cough2073
Measles216428
Acute Poliomyelitis
Paralytic2423
Non-Paralytic87
Diphtheria--
Pneumonia12133
Dysentery254
Paratyphoid Fever55
Erysipelas121
Meningococcal Infection11
Food Poisoning277
Puerperal Pyrexia116112
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1616
TOTAL2884270