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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 1963
[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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