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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
Orpington 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]
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Other Infectious Diseases.
In addition to those previously mentioned, notifications were
received as under: —
Erysipelas 8 cases (4 were removed to hospital).
Puerperal Pyrexia 90 cases (89 were institutionally
treated and one home nursed).
No cases of the following diseases were brought to the notice
of the department and no deaths were registered: —
Anthrax.
Cholera.
Encephalitis.
Glandular Fever.
Malaria.
Meningococcal Infection.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Typhus Fever.
Undulant Fever.