London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Harrow 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Harrow]
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which in quite recent years caused so many fatalities in children; or from
poliomyelitis. There were no cases of diphtheria to provide any fatalities,
and scarlet fever for some years now has been of to-day's very mild
variety with virtually no case mortality. The outbreak of influenza caused
21 deaths, all but seven being in persons over 65 years of age. There
was a further fall in the number of deaths from tuberculosis which this
year was only 14.