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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
Leyton 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE-NOTIFICATIONS
| DISEASE | Number notified during Year | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 60 | 106 | 156 |
| Whooping Cough | 159 | 104 | 29 |
| Measles | 1033 | 433 | 894 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 11 | - | 2 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis, Non-paralytic | 8 | - | - |
| Tuberculosis, Respiratory | 51 | 41 | 46 |
| Tuberculosis, Meninges and C.N.S. | 1 | - | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - |
| Smallpox | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis, Other | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | - |
| Acute Encephalitis, Inf. | - | 1 | 2 |
| Acute Encephalitis, Post-infectious | 1 | - | - |
| Dysentery | 6 | 38 | 88 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 2 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 13 | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 223 | 132 | 167 |
| Paratyphoid | 1 | - | 1 |
| Enteric or typhoid | 1 | - | 1 |
| Food poisoning | 29 | 23 | 38 |
| Erysipelas | 17 | 13 | 10 |
| Malaria | - | - | - |
| Pemphigus Neonatorum | - | - | - |
| Chickenpox | - | - | - |
| 1626 | 897 | 1439 | |
A comparison of the total numbers of notifications received during each of the
years 1957-1959 prompts the following observations.
Poliomyelitis. Originally 3 cases of paralytic poliomyelitis were notified. One
of these was subsequently withdrawn as "not poliomyelitis," and one other was a Walthamstow
case which was notified on admission to a local Hospital. The third case relates to
a resident who had an acute paralysis, however in a few days made a complete recovery.
This patient had had two injections of vaccine against poliomyelitis.
Tuberculosis. The new notifications in respect of tuberculosis were slightly up
during 1959 compared to the previous" year. Seventeen of them were in respect of patients
aged 45 years and over.
Scarlet Fever. Cases of scarlet fever show a considerable increase, which would be
a matter of concern but for the fact that the majority of cases were an infection of a
mild type which quickly responded to treatment.
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