Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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TABLE No.
Notification of Infectious Diseases (including Tuberculosis), 1919 to 1940.
Year. | Smallpox | Diphtheria and Mem. Croup. | Erysipelas | Scarlet Fever. | Enteric Fever. | Continued Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | §Puerperal Pyrexia. | Primary Pneumonia. | Influenzal Pneumonia. | Malaria. | Dysentery. | Anthrex. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Encephalitis Lethargica. | Cerebro-spinal Meningitis. | Poliomyelitis and Polio-encephalitis. | ‡Zymotic Enteritis. | Pulmonary Tuberculosis. | Tuberculosis Non-pulmonary. | †Measles | x Chicken Pox. | *Whooping Cough |
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— | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | |||||||||||||||||
1 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | |||||||||||||||
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— | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | ||||||||||||||||
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— | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | ||||||||||||||||
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§Notification of Puerperal Pyrexia commenced October, 1926. † Measles notifiable from 1/1/1916 to 31/12/1919 and from 1/10/38.
‡ Compulsory notification of Zymotic Enteritis commenced 1913
x Chicken Pox was made notifiable from April, 1930 to 30th September, 1931. * Compulsory notification of Whooping Cough commenced 1/10/38