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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 1959

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]

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SECTION B

Table: PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASESTABLE VIIIThe following table shows the total number of corrected notifications other than tuberculosis, received during the year.

PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES

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 Fever15111
Whooping Cough32-
Measles1,2835
Acute Poliomyelitis
Paralytic55
Non-Paralytic55
Diphtheria--
Pneumonia12141
Dysentery9519
Paratyphoid Fever11
Erysipelas7-
Meningococcal Infection--
Food Poisoning367
Puerperal Pyrexia126125
Ophthalmia Neonatorum--
TOTAL1,862219