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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DISEASE | Number notified during Year | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | |
Scarlet Fever | 156 | 50 | 44 | 29 |
Erysipelas | 10 | 6 | 5 | 9 |
Whooping Cough | 29 | 42 | 20 | 34 |
Measles | 894 | 215 | 1195 | 281 |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - |
Acute Poliomyelitis - Paralytic | 2 | 1 | - | - |
- Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis - Respiratory | 46 | 40 | 32 | 35 |
- Meninges and C.N.S. | - | 1 | - | - |
- Other | 5 | 6 | 5 | 6 |
Meningococcal infection | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Acute Encephalitis, Inf. | 2 | - | - | - |
Post-inf. | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 88 | 31 | 60 | 97 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 3 | - | 2 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | 2 | 5 | 2 |
Pemphigus Neonatorum | - | - | - | - |
Typhoid Fever | 1 | 11 | - | - |
Paratyphoid | 1 | - | - | - |
Food Poisoning | 38 | 11 | 20 | 22 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | 167 | 47 | 59 | 35 |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - |
Anthrax | - | - | - | - |
1439 | 451 | 1447 | 553 |