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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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Whooping cough 1
(Tottenham patient, aged 1 yr.
1 ninth)
Pneumonia & Measles 1
(Tottenham patient, aged 11 mnths)
Pneumonia, Measles & Whooping cough 1
(Tottenham patient, aged 3)
Tubercular meningitis & measles 1
(Tottenham patient, aged 1)
Meningococcal encephalitis 1
(Southgate patient, aged 17)
Puerperal Fever 1
(Friern Barnet patient, aged 30)
(Admitted from Southgate)
Amoebic Dysentery 1
(Southgate patient, aged 62)
(Admitted in 1940)
These 16 fatal cases give a mortality rate of
4.07% of the total cases treated.
OPERATIONS. The only operations performed at the
Isolation Hospital during 1941 were one tonsillectomy
and one incision of knee.
NUMBERS IN HOSPITAL. The daily average of patients
treated in hospital during each month of 1941 was
as follows:
-30-