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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

Barnet 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]

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Of the foregoing, the following cases normally resident outside the district
were notified from the Wellhouse Hospital:- Dysentery 1; Puerperal Pyrexia 7;
Measles 2; Cerebro Spinal Fever 1; Typhoid 1; Acute Poliomyelitis 3;
Erysipelas 1.
The cases of Tuberculosis removed are chiefly sent to Clare Hall and Ware Park
Sanatoria.
The Case Rates per 1,000 of the population are as follows:- Scarlet Fever 0.94;
Tuberculosis 1.51; Puerperal Pyrexia 7.85 (per 1,000 Live and Still Births).

Table: AGE INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

AGE INCIDENCE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

DISEASENUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED
YEARS OF AGE
0-1-2-3-4-5-10-15-20-35-45-65Total
Scarlet Fever--31212212---23
Cerebro Spinal Fever-------1-l--2
Dysentery-----1---11-3
Typhoid-----1------1
Acute Poliomyelitis--1--2------3
Polioencephalitis--l---------1
Whooping Cough35910929--3l--69
Erysipelas--------2l--3
Measles1423522542152935-l-326
Puerperal Pyrexia--------9l--10
Acute Pneumonia---l-1------2
Acute Encephalitis-----1------l
TOTALS17286637531991152152-444

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CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
No use has been made of the Schick and Dick Tests in Diphtheria and Scarlet
Fever: