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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INFECTIOUS DISEASE-NOTIFICATIONS
DISEASE | Number notified during Year | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | |
Scarlet Fever | 50 | 44 | 29 | 27 |
Erysipelas | 6 | 5 | 9 | 5 |
Whooping Cough | 42 | 20 | 34 | 62 |
Measles | 215 | 1195 | 281 | 1069 |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - |
Acute Poliomyelitis-Paralytic | 1 | - | - | - |
- Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis-Respiratory | 40 | 32 | 35 | 44 |
- Meninges and C.N.S. | 1 | - | - | 1 |
- Other | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 |
Meningococcal infection | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Acute Encephalitis, Inf. | - | - | - | 2 |
- Post-inf. | - | - | - | 1 |
Dysentery | 31 | 60 | 97 | 40 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | - | 2 | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 |
Pemphigus Neonatorum | - | - | - | - |
Typhoid Fever | 11 | - | - | - |
Paratyphoid | - | - | - | 1 |
Food Poisoning | 11 | 20 | 22 | - |
Malaria | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | 47 | 59 | 35 | 102 |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - |
Anthrax | - | - | - | - |
451 | 1447 | 553 | 1364 |
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