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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 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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Notified. Cases of Infectious Diseases, 1943.
| Diseases. < | Totals. | Jan. | Feb. | Mar. | Apr. | May | June | July | Aug. | Sept | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | D’ths. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | 10 | — | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | — | 2 | - | 2 | — | - | 2 | 1 |
| Scarlet fever | 162 | 7 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 21 | 23 | 23 | - |
| Typhoid fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | « | - | - | - | — |
| Dysentery | 21 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 19 | - | - |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | — |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 12 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 2 |
| Erysipelas | 33 | 7 | 1 | 4 | - | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | - |
| Ophthalmia neonatorurn | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Measles | 732 | 162 | 195 | 231 | 93 | 33 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Whooping cough | 105 | - | 8 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 9 | - |
| Acute Polio-myelit is | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cerebro - spinal fever | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Encephalitis lethargica | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 70 | '7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 4 -i- | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 41 |
| Tuberculosis -Pulmonary | 65 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 35 |
| Non- Pulmonary | 13 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals | 1229 | 189 | 227 | 266 | 127 | 66 | 53 | 42 | 41 | 40 | 42 | 66 | 70 | 82 |
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“Including all forms of pneumonia, notifiable and non-notifiable.