Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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Number notified during Year | ||||
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DISEASE | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 |
Scarlet Fever | 60 | 106 | 156 | 50 |
Whooping Cough | 159 | 104 | 29 | 42 |
Measles | 1033 | 433 | 894 | 215 |
Acute Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 11 | - | 2 | 1 |
Acute Poliomyelitis, Non-paralytic | 8 | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis, Respiratory | 51 | 41 | 46 | 40 |
Tuberculosis, Meninges and C.N.S. | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis, other | 8 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Acute Encephalitis, Inf. | - | 1 | 2 | - |
Acute Encephalitis,Post-infectious | 1 | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 6 | 38 | 88 | 31 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 2 | - | 3 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 13 | 1 | - | 2 |
Pneumonia | 223 | 132 | 167 | 47 |
Paratyphoid | 1 | - | 1 | - |
Enteric or typhoid | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
Pood Poisoning | 29 | 23 | 38 | 11 |
Erysipelas | 17 | 13 | 10 | 6 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - |
Pemphigus Neonatorum | - | - | - | - |
1626 | 897 | 1439 | 451 |
The number of notification of infectious diseases received during 1960 were the lowest
ever recorded in the Borough.
(9)