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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
Southgate 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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The diseases for which the 325 patients were admitted during 1939 were as follows:
| . Scarlet fever | 184 |
| Diphtheria | 69 |
| Diphtheria "Carriers" | 6 |
| Diphtheria & Whooping cough | 2 |
| Erysipelas | 11 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 |
| Baby with mother | 2 |
| Pneumonia (including Influenza) | 6 |
| Measles | 2 |
| German Measles | 2 |
| Whooping cough | 2 |
| Whooping cough & Pneumonia | 6 |
| Whooping cough & Bronchitis | 4 |
| Chicken pox | 3 |
| Mump s | 1 |
| Meningococcal Meningitis | 1 |
| Septicaemia | 1 |
| Others | 19 |
| 325 |
DEATHS, Two deaths took place during the year,
as compared with 11 in 1938. These 2 deaths
occurred from the following diseases:
Primary lobar pnuemonia 1
(Southgate patient, aged 48)
Broncho-pneumonia following
whooping cough 1
(Tottenham patient, ages 5 months)
Even taking into account the decrease in
the total number of cases treated, two deaths
from among a total of 334 is very satisfactory;
while it is particularly pleasing that no
deaths took place among the cases of diphtheria
treated during the year.
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