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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
Stepney 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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Table 14
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
| DISEASE | 1962 | 1952-61 CORRECTED NOTIFICATIONS | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notifications | Admitted to Hospital | Corrected Total | |||||||||||
| 1961 | 1960 | 1959 | 1958 | 1957 | 1956 | 1955 | 1954 | 1953 | 1952 | ||||
| Ac.Encephalitis: | |||||||||||||
| Infective | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | — | — : | — | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Post-infectious. | - | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Ac.Poliomyelitis: | |||||||||||||
| Paralytic | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 27 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| Non-paralytic | 1 | 1 | -- | - | - | 1 | -- | 3 | 1 | 17 | — | 2 | 3 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | — |
| Dysentery | 33 | 15 | 31 | 48 | 140 | 87 | 145 | 34 | 115 | 147 | 117 | 67 | 71 |
| Enteric Fever | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Erysipelas | 4 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 13 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 24 |
| Food Poisoning | 10 | 2 | 10 | 24 | 19 | 8 | 69 | 8 | 22 | 18 | 23 | 12 | 14 |
| Malaria | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| Measles | 443 | 30 | 438 | 1898 | 55 | 1344 | 199 | 1398 | 574 | 1834 | 144 | 655 | 1284 |
| Membranous Croup | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Mening. Infection. | - | 2 | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 3 |
| Oph. Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 20 | 10 | 24 | 24 |
| Pneumonia | 95 | - | 95 | 117 | 81 | 131 | 90 | 77 | 79 | 54 | 65 | 78 | 63 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia. | 15 | 15 | 15 | 87 | 100 | 58 | 26 | 44 | 63 | 134 | 163 | 98 | 96 |
| Scabies | 33 | — | 33 | 50 | 61 | 49 | 53 | 51 | 43 | 39 | 29 | 22 | 28 |
| Scarlet Fever | 24 | 7 | 24 | 53 | 24 | 59 | 97 | 46 | 34 | 26 | 60 | 75 | 208 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis: | |||||||||||||
| Pulmonary | 108 | - | 91 | 99 | 110 | 135 | 136 | 120 | 116 | 149 | 160 | 167 | 137 |
| Non-pulmonary | 11 | - | 9 | 9 | 9 | 14 | 9 | 18 | 11 | 23 | 23 | 13 | 12 |
| Whooping Cough | 18 | 4 | 18 | 31 | 223 | 76 | 36 | 76 | 235 | 147 | 125 | 249 | 156 |
| TOTALS: | 800 | 82 | 772 | 2434 | 835 | 1988 | 881 | 1912 | 1318 | 2656 | 945 | 1489 | 2133 |