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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 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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| Number notified during Year | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)