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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 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southgate]
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The distribution of these cases among the various wards was as follows:—
| North-east | North-west | Middle | South |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | — | 2 | 3 |
A broad classification of the cases of tuberculosis notified during the past five years in relation to employment was:—
| 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clerical | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Housewives | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Children | 5 | — | — | 2 | — |
| Manual labour | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | — |
| Factory Workers | 4 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Professional Classes | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Armed Forces | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Domestic Service | — | — | — | — | — |
| Food Trades | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Students | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Shop Assistants | 1 | — | — | 1 | — |
| Nurses | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Non—manual trades other than food | 1 | 3 | — | — | — |
| Teachers | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Unclassified | 2 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 3 |
| 28 | 28 | 16 | 16 | 8 |
IMMUNISATION AND VACCINATION IN THE
CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The following table gives a rough estimate of the extent to
which the population of Southgate is protected by immunisation
from the various infectious diseases. This is based on our knowledge
of the rate of immunisation obtaining in children from infancy
to fifteen years of age, covering the period from 1935 to the present
elate. (The figures do not however take account of movement of
population into or out of the Borough).
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