London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wembley]
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Winter respiratory diseases.
Winter period considered to begin week ending first Saturday in October and to end week ending last Saturday in March.
| Notifications of primary Pneumonia and acute Influenzal-Pneumonia. | Death certificates in which respiratory diseases mentioned. | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1938-39 | 75 | 86 | |
| 1939-40 | 61 | 106 | |
| 1940-41 | 82 | 107 | |
| 1941-42 | 101 | 135 | |
| 1942-43 | 92 | 105 | |
Non-notifiable Infectious Diseases -School Children.
| Disease. | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken-Pox | 13 | 55 | 100 | 28 | 35 | 78 | 19 | - | 8 | 16 | « 34 | 34 | 420 | ||
| Mumps | 48 | 144 | 165 | 46 | 98 | 78 | 47 | — | 16 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 662 | ||
| German Measles | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 13 | ||
| Infective Jaundice | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 21 | 44 | 99 | |||
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