Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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Cerebro-spinal fever 3
Puerperal pyrexia 6
Baby with mother 5
Dysentery 1
Enteritis 1
Impetigo 3
Mumps 3
Scabies 2
Vincent's Angina 2
Septicaemia 1
Meningitis 1
Observation cases 22
Deaths.—Six deaths took place during the year, as compared
with 5 during 1945. These 6 deaths occurred from the following
causes:
Septicaemia and erysipelas 2
(Tottenham patient aged 34 and Southgate
patient aged 62.)
Septicaemia and infection of throat 1
(Tottenham patient aged 57.)
Broncho-pneumonia 1
(Southgate patient aged 75)
Broncho-pneumonia, measles and whooping
cough 1
(Tottenham patient aged 4.)
Bronchitis and whooping cough 1
(Tottenham patient aged 4 months.)
These six fatal cases give a mortality rate of 1.44 per cent of
the total cases treated, as compared with 1.16 per cent, during 1945.
Operations.—One operation for the removal of tonsils and
adenoids was performed at the Isolation Hospital during 1946.
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