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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE - NOTIFICATIONS
| DISEASE | Number notified during Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 106 | 156 | 50 | 44 |
| Erysipelas | 13 | 10 | 6 | 5 |
| Whooping Cough | 104 | 29 | 42 | 20 |
| Measles | 433 | 894 | 215 | 1195 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis - Paralytic | - | 2 | 1 | - |
| - Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis - Respiratory | 41 | 46 | 40 | 32 |
| - Meninges and C.N.S. | - | - ¡ | 1 | - |
| - Other | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
| Meningococcal infection | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis, Inf | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Post-inf. | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 38 | 88 | 31 | 60 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | - | 3 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | 2 | 5 |
| Pemphigus Neonatorum | - | - | - | - |
| Typhoid Fever | - | 1 | 11 | - |
| Paratyphoid | - | 1 | - | - |
| Food Poisoning | 23 | 38 | 11 | 20 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 132 | 167 | 47 | 59 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - |
| Anthrax | . | - | _ | 1 |
| 897 | 1439 | 451 | 1447 | |
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