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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 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The number of patients treated in hospital
during 1941 was 393, as against 381 during 1940,
and 334 during 1939. (This number comprises all
patients admitted during the year, together with
those in hospital on 1st January, 1941).
The following table sets out the number of
patients admitted to the hospital during 1940 & 41 and
the areas from which those patients were admitted.
1940.
1941.
Southgate
101
119
Tottenham
150
223
Wood Green
1
—
Hornsey
1
—
Middlesex County Council
4
1
Refugees
4
—
Military Authorities
111
13
372
356
The diseases for which the 356 patients were
admitted during 1941 were as follows.
Scarlet fever 98
Scarlet fever & Diphtheria 1
Scarlet fever & Chicken pox 1
Scarlet fever & Scabies 2
Diphtheria 78
Diphtheria "Carriers" 9
Diphtheria & Measles 1
Diphtheria & Whooping cough 1
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