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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
Wembley 1941
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]
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Ringworm 1
Dysentery 3
Poliomyelitis 5
Infantile deaths 31
Other special
e.g. Vermin Head pediculi Body 673
Scabies 562
Mothers: Puerperal Pyrexia (Notified) 15
Still Birth 44
Home Help Supervision 106
Other Special 843
(e.g. Day Nursery;
Diphtheria Immunisation;
Home condition Forms, re:
A.N. Patients; Hospital
arrangements).
5. INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Diphtheria Immunisation.
Year.
0-5
5-10
10-15
Over 15
TOTALS.
1937
129
174
36
3
342
1938
238
267
65
5
575
1939
181
214
63
4
462
1940
249
152
44
5
450
1941
2454
2102
998
32
5586
3251
2909
1206
49
7415
Even with the intensive drive for the
public to be protected against diphtheria
having gone on unabated - since the very beginning
of 1941 over half of the children under 5 years
of age and over half of the children between
5 ana 15 years of age in Wembley have not yet
had this protective treatment by which diphtheria
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