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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 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The number of patients treated in hospital during
1944 was 441, as against 585 during 1943 and 475 during
1942. (This number comprises all patients admitted
during the year, together with those in hospital on 1st
January, 1944.)
The following table sets out the number of patients
admitted to the hospital during 1942, 1943 and 1944, and
the areas from which those patients were admitted:
1942.
1943.
1944.
Southgate
116
178
144
Tottenham
284
346
225
Middlesex County Council
15
5
8
Military Authorities
20
15
11
Priern Barnet
--
1
--
Wood Green
--
--
2
435
545
390
The diseases for which the 390 patients were
admitted during 1944 were as follows:
Scarlet fever 206
Scarlet fever & Chickenpox 1
Scarlet fever & Diphtheria 1
Diphtheria 64
Dysentery 11
Enteritis 1
Erysipelas 14
Measles 9
Measles & Pneumonia 6
Measles & Otitis media 1
German measles 8
Pneumonia 5
Influenza & Pneumonia 1
Whooping cough 6
Whooping cough & Pneumonia 5
Puerperal pyrexia 10
Baby with mother 13
Cerebro-spinal fever 4
Acute Poliomyelitis 2
Chicken pox 4
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