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Shoreditch 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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Table: CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING 1960. (confirmed diagnoses).

CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING 1960. (confirmed diagnoses).

NOTIFIABLE DISEASE.Total number of confirmed casesAGES
Under 1 year1-5 years5-15 years15-25 years25-45 years45-65 years65 years †Deaths
Diphtheria—————————
Dysentery1098374131073—
Acute encephalitis-infective—————————
post-infectious-----——-—
Enteric (paratyphoid)1-1------
Erysipelas2—————11_
Measles71821411----
Meningococcal Infection---------
Ophthalmia Neonatorum--------
Pneumonia52-1-11--
Acute Poliomyelitis-
- paralytic2-11-----
- non-paralytic---------
Puerperal pyrexia---------
Scabies4-—-31---
Scarlet fever34-1122-1---
Whooping cough1132148431----
Tuberculosis -
- pulmonary35-34451365
- non-pulmonary2----2--—
Food Poisoning9--3-411-
Total38739122156122423115

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The following diseases are notifiable in this Borough:
Disease
Acute encephalitis
Acute primary or
influenzal pneumonia
Acute poliomyelitis
Anthrax
Cholera
Continued fever
Diphtheria
Dysentery
Authority for notification
Public Health A.ct, 1936 (Section 143)Reg.No.2259 made
by Minister of Health,1949 (1.1.50)
Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143)Reg.No.299 made
by Minister of Health,1953 (1.4.53).
Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143)Reg.No.2259 made
by Minister of Health,1949 (1.1.50).
Public Health (London)Act,1936 (Section 143 and 283
Reg.No.1989 made by Minister of Health,i960 (1.11.60)
Public Health (London) Ac(.,1936 (Section 192 and 304)
Do.
Do.
Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143)Reg.No.299 made
by Minister of Health, 1953 (1.4.53)