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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
East Ham 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Table of the Chief Infectious Diseases, Showing the Monthly Incidence in Children of School Age
Month.
Measles
Chicken Pox
Whooping Cough
Mumps
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria
January
385
21
41
2
12
5
February
61
22
46
6
14
7
March
89
39
26
2
13
9
April
99
33
44
2
20
5
May
19
24
37
—
18
7
June
1
26
18
1
11
4
July
1
16
1
2
14
7
August |
8
6
11
3
28
6
September i
October
3
32
2
2
23
4
November
5
111
6
12
17
1
December
—
52
2
—
10
1
Totals
(464) 671
(119) 382
(77) 234
(737) 32
(187) 180
(148) 56
The totals in brackets are those for the year 1935 and are inserted for comparison.
The return of cases of non-notifiable infectious diseases is not sufficiently accurate to indicate the prevalence of these
illnesses amongst school children.