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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
Wood Green 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The following table sets out the infectious diseases notified as compared with notifications received during 1962:-
| 1963 | 1962 | |
|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 17 | 21 |
| Diphtheria | - | - |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | - | - |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | - | |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 20 | 17 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 23 | 21 |
| Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 2 | 3 |
| Malaria | - | - |
| Measles | 429 | 232 |
| Whooping Cough | 77 | 16 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - |
| Dysentery | 78 | 49 |
| Food Poisoning | 3 | - |
| Smallpox | - | - |
| Meningoccocal Infection | - | 1 |
| 650 | 362 |
From the table set out above the following facts emerge'-
1. Scarlet Fever notifications totalled 17 in 1963, a drop of 4
on the 1962 figures.
2. It is now 16 years since the last case of diphtheria was
notofied in the Borough and 24 years since this was a cause of
death.
3. Measles notifications rose from 232 in 1962 to 429 this year,
4. Pertussis notifications were 77.
5. The incidence of food poisoning and dysentery rose from a
combined total of 49 in 1962 to 81 in 1963. All cases of dysentery
and food poisoning, particularly Salmonella typh-murium
infections, are carefully investigated and are fully followed up
wherever the source of infection may lie
6. No cases of poliomyelitis were notified in 1963.
7. 25 cases of tuberculosis were notified during 1963, one more
than in 1962. A broad classification of the cases of tuberculosis
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