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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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34
Diseases.
At
all
ages.
Under
1
year
1
to
2
2to3
3 to 4
4 to
5
5
to
10
10
to
111
15
to
20
20
to
35
35
5
of
65
65
over
Deaths
Notified Cases of Infectious Diseases, 1939.
Smallpox
--
Diphtheria
6
4
1
l
1
Scarlet fever
42
1
1
3
3
12
10
7
3
2
Typhoid fever
1
1
Dysentery
1
Puerperal
Pyrexia
4
1
3
4
Erysipelas
9
1
3
5
Ophthalmia
Neonatorum
Measles
2
1
1
Whooping Cough
1
l
Acute Poliomyelitis
Cerebro-spinal
Meningitis
Pneumonia
29
1
1
4
l
2
3
2
13
2
28
Tuberculosis
Pulmonary
41
1
1
8
19
5
6
1
30
Non-Pulmonary
11
—
1
1
2
l
1
2
1
1
1
7
Totals
147
–
4
4
3
5
23
14
20
31
13
25
5
70