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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 1945
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Scarlet Fever.
Number of notified cases 122
Revision of diagnosis 5
Urticaria 1
Measles 1
No evidence of infectious disease
found 3
Final number of Scarlet Fever cases 117
Cases with Concomitant Disease.
Scarlet Fever with Mumps 1
,, ,, ,, Chicken Pox 1
,, ,, ,, Impetigo 2
,, ,, ,, Whooping Cough 1
,, ,, ,, Diphtheria 1
No cases of Scarlet Fever were treated with A.S.S., but
5 were given A.D.S. 13 cases of Scarlet Fever developed
Cervical Adenitis.
Measles.
With Pneumonia 35
Revision of diagnosis 2
Bronchitis 1
P.U.O. 1
Final number of measles and pneumonia 33
Miscellaneous.
26 miscellaneous cases consisted of:—
Chicken Pox 4
Mumps 4
Whooping Cough with Broncho-pneumonia 6
Pneumonia 1
Urticaria 1
Jaundice 1
Depression 1
Eczema 1
Quinsy 1
Typhoid 3
Revision of Diagnosis :—
Appendicitis 1
Sub-phrenic and liver abscesses 1
Cystitis 1