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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 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Leyton]
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| DISEASE | Number notified during Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 44 | 29 | 27 | 51 |
| Erysipelas | 9 | 9 | 5 | – |
| Whooping Cough | 20 | 34 | 62 | 38 |
| Measles | 1195 | 281 | 1069 | 131 |
| Diphtheria | – | – | – | – |
| Acute Poliomyelitis - Paralytic | – | – | – | – |
| - Non-paralytic | – | – | – | – |
| Tuberculosis - Respiratory | 32 | 35 | 44 | 31 |
| - Meninges and C.N.S. | – | – | 1 | – |
| - Other | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 |
| Meningococcal infection | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Acute Encephalitis. Inf. | – | – | 2 | – |
| - Post-inf. | – | – | 1 | – |
| Dysentery | 30 | 97 | 40 | 65 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | – | 2 | – | – |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Pemphigus Neonatorum | – | – | – | – |
| Typhoid Fever | – | – | – | – |
| Paratyphoid | – | – | 1 | – |
| Food Poisoning | 20 | 22 | – | 6 |
| Malaria | – | – | – | – |
| Pneumonia | 59 | 35 | 102 | 21 |
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – |
| Anthrax | – | – | – | – |
| 1447 | 553 | 1364 | 351 | |
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