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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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Post-encephalitis lethargica 1
Asthma 1
Mumps 2
Vincents angina 1
Observation cases 13
DEATHS.- Ten deaths took place during the year, the
same number as during 1943. These 10 deaths occurred
from the following causes:
Diphtheria 3
(Tottenham patients, aged 3, 4 and
13 years, respectively)
Pneumonia 1
(Southgate.patient, aged 8 months)
Pneumonia and v/hooping cough 2
(Tottenham patients, aged 15 months
and 4 years respectively)
Whooping cough 1
(Southgate patient, aged 1 month)
Gastro-intestinal catarrh 1
(Tottenham patient, aged 9 months)
Myocarditis and scarlet fever 1
(Tottenham patient, aged 2 years)
Septicaemia, retained placenta,
child-birth 1
(Tottenham patient, aged 38 years)
These 10 fatal cases give a mortality rate of
2.26% of the total cases treated.
OPERATIONS,- Six operations for the removal of
tonsils and adenoids were performed at the Isolation
Hospital during 1944.
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