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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 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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The diseases for which the 435 patients were
admitted during 1942 were as follows:
Scarlet fever 198
Scarlet fever & Diphtheria 1
Scarlet fever & Chicken pox 1
Scarlet fever & Mumps 1
Scarlet fever & ? Mastoid 1
Diphtheria 74
Diphtheria "Carriers" 19
Diphtheria & Mumps 1
Diphtheria & Chicken pox 1
Erysipelas 3
Poliomyelitis 3
Encephalitis Lethargica 1
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis 4
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis Carrier 1
Dysentery 4
Puerperal Pyrexia 8
Baby with Mother 4
Pneumonia 3
Measles 32
Measles & Bronchitis 3
Measles & Pneumonia 11
Measles & Mastoid 1
Whooping cough 4
Whooping cough & Pneumonia 4
Whooping cough & Bronchitis 1
Chicken pox 7
Mumps 16
Others 5
Observation cases 23
DEATHS. Eight deaths took place during the year, as
compared with 16 in 1941. These 8 deaths occurred from
the following diseases:
Diphtheria 3
(Tottenham patient, aged 4)
(Tottenham patient, aged 4)
(Southgate patient, aged 34)
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