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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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Notified Cases of Infectious Diseases, 1940.
| Diseases. | Totals | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | -– | |||||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 21 | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 4 | 12 | – |
| Scarlet fever | 41 | 1 | 2 | — | 3 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | – |
| Typhoid fever | 8 | - | – | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | – | – | 1 | – |
| Dysentery | 1 | – | – | — | — | – | – | 1 | — | – | – | — | — | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 2 |
| Erysipelas | 22 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | – |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Measles | 347 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 82 | 66 | 24 | 112 | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 58 | 1 | – | - | 1 | 6 | 21 | - | - | 2 | 3 | 6 | 18 | – |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | –– | |||||||||||||
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 2 | - | – | — | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 Ø |
| Pneumonia | 36 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 50 || | ||
| Tuberculosis -Pulmonary | 37 | – | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 27 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 11 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | - | – | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 5 |
| Totals | 591 | 13 | 29 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 39 | 26 | 31 | 98 | 84 | 45 | 156 | 87 |
Ø 1 of these was an un-notified case occurring outside the Borough.
|| Including all forms of pneumonia, notifiable & non-notifiable.