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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
Hornchurch 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornchurch]
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MONTHLY NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE–1949.
| MONTH | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Poliomyelitis | Pneumonia | Erysipelas | Dysentery | Food Poisoning | Infective Hepatitis | Measles | Whooping Cough | Cerebrospinal Fever | Puerperal Pyrexia | Polio- Encephalitis | Paratyphoid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15 | – | – | 4 | 2 | – | – | – | 362 | 18 | – | 1 | – | –– |
| February | 13 | – | – | 12 | 1 | – | – | 3 | 537 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | –– |
| March | 11 | – | – | 8 | 1 | – | – | 2 | 390 | 9 | – | – | – | – |
| April | 8 | – | 1 | 6 | – | – | – | 4 | 226 | 14 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| May | 14 | – | – | 3 | 4 | – | – | 5 | 93 | 37 | 1 | – | – | – |
| June | 24 | – | – | 4 | 2 | – | 1 | 2 | 73 | 25 | – | 1 | – | – |
| July | 16 | – | – | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | 22 | 50 | 1 | – | – | – |
| August | 10 | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 8 | 40 | – | – | – | – |
| September | 11 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 4 | 2 | 2 | 36 | – | – | – | 1 |
| October | 17 | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 3 | – | 16 | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| November | 32 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 3 | 6 | 19 | – | – | 1 | – |
| December | 40 | – | – | 4 | 2 | – | – | 3 | – | 21 | – | – | – | – |
| Totals | 211 | 3 | 9 | 49 | 17 | 1 | 5 | 27 | 1,719 | 291 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 |