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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 1940
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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The diseases for which the 372 patients were admitted during 1940 were as follows:
| Scarlet fever | 77 |
| Scarlet fever & Diphtheria | 1 |
| Scarlet fever & Bronchitis | 1 |
| Diphtheria | 41 |
| Diphtheria "Carriers" | 2 |
| Diphtheria & Pneumonia | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 13 |
| Typhoid fever | 5 |
| Dysentery | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 |
| Baby with mother | 3 |
| Pneumonia (incl. Influenza) | 45 |
| Measles | 35 |
| Measles & Bronchitis | 12 |
| Measles & Pneumonia | 5 |
| Measles & Ulcerative Colitis | 1 |
| Measles, Mumps & Otitis Media | 1 |
| Measles & ? Mastoid | 2 |
| Mother with child | 1 |
| German Measles | 82 |
| German Measles & Bronchitis | 1 |
| German Measles & Appendicitis | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 2 |
| Whooping Cough & Pneumonia | 2 |
| Chicken pox | 2 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 6 |
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis "Carrier" | 1 |
| Others | 24 |
DEATHS. Five deaths took place during the year, as
compared with 2 in 1939. These 5 deaths occurred
from the following diseases:
Diphtheria 1
(Tottenham patient, aged 6)
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 2
(1 Southgate patient,aged 1½)
(1 Tottenham patient,aged 15)
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