London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Leyton 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]

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INFECTIOUS DISEASE - NOTIFICATIONS

Number notified during Year
DISEASE1957195819591960
Scarlet Fever6010615650
Whooping Cough1591042942
Measles1033433894215
Acute Poliomyelitis, Paralytic11-21
Acute Poliomyelitis, Non-paralytic8---
Tuberculosis, Respiratory51414640
Tuberculosis, Meninges and C.N.S.1--1
Diphtheria---
Smallpox----
Tuberculosis, other8356
Meningococcal Infection1--1
Acute Encephalitis, Inf.-12-
Acute Encephalitis,Post-infectious1---
Dysentery6388831
Ophthalmia Neonatorum32-3
Puerperal Pyrexia131-2
Pneumonia22313216747
Paratyphoid1-1-
Enteric or typhoid1-11
Pood Poisoning29233811
Erysipelas1713106
Malaria----
Pemphigus Neonatorum----
16268971439451

The number of notification of infectious diseases received during 1960 were the lowest
ever recorded in the Borough.
(9)