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Shoreditch 1961

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]

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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING 1961. (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
Dysentery72311
Acute encephalitis - infective
post-infectious
Enteric (paratyphoid)
Eiysipelas11
Measles6492333328823
Meningococcal Infection321
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Pneumonia142422112
Acute Poliomyelitis - - paralytic
- non-paralytic
Puerperal pyrexia
Scabies83221
Scarlet fever247161
Whooping cough12156
Tuberculosis - - pulmonary2621459711
-non-pulmonary111
Food Poisoning51211
Total750283605181311101012

The following diseases are notifiable in this Borough:

DiseaseAuthority for notification
Acute encephalitisPublic Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.2259 by Minister of Health,1949 (1.1.50)
Acute primary or influenzal pneumoniaPublic Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.299 made by Minister of Health, 1953 (l.4.53).
Acute poliomyelitisPublic Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.2259 made by Minister of Health, 1949 (1.1.50).
AnthraxPublic Health (infectious Diseases) Amendment Regulations 1960.
CholeraPublic Health (london) Act,1936 (Section 192 and 304)
Continued feverDo.
DiphtheriaDo.
DysenteryPublic Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.299 made by Minister of Health, 1953 (1.4.53)