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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 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnet Urban District Council]
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HEW CASES AND MORTALITY DURING 1962
| YEARS OF AGE | NEW CASES | DEATHS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Non-Pulmonary | Pulmonary | N on-Pulmonary | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 15 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 25 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 55 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 45 | 2 | — | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 55 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 65 and over | 2 | - | _ | _ | - | - | - | - |
| TOTALS | 1 | - | - | 2 | — | - | - | |
| 10 | ||||||||
The anti tuberculosis measures, mass radiography, clinics etc., are all
playing a part in the scheme to reduce the incidence of this disease. With
improved housing conditions, "better education, antibiotics and the eradication
of tuberculosis in bovine animals it would seem possible now to bring about the
defeat of tuberculosis in humans.
Cases removed for treatment are usually sent to Clare Hall Hospital, South
Minims, other patients with an infectious disease being sent to Coppett's Wood
Hospital, Muswell Hill, N.10.
INTERNATIONAL VACCINATION CERTIFICATES.
At the end of 1952 a new form was introduced for International Vaccination
Certificates requiring authentication of the signature of the doctor performing
vaccination or inoculation of persons proceeding over-seas. During the year
one thousand, nine hundred and ninety-one such certificates were authenticated
and marked with the internationally agreed stamp.
This is approximately six times the usual number of certificates
Authenticated in a year and this exceptional increase is no doubt to the
increase in foreign travel and also to the smallpox outbreaks in other parts of
this Country.