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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 8. - TOTAL CASES OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES, 1927-1951.
| DISEASE | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1931 | 1932 | 1933 | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small Pox | - | 17 | 25 | 70 | 51 | 13 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Scarlet Fever | 798 | 832 | 743 | 484 | 245 | 779 | 701 | 979 | 411 | 359 | 387 | 287 | 196 | 77 | 68 | 210 | 271 | 132 | 153 | 193 | 179 | 222 | 289 | 270 | 203 |
| Diphtheria | 464 | 669 | 578 | 473 | 196 | 157 | 180 | 379 | 254 | 134 | 149 | 141 | 91 | 47 | 45 | 49 | 59 | 33 | 31 | 19 | 46 | 14 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Enteric Fever | 2 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 | - | 2 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 3 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 38 | 60 | 49 | 63 | 54 | 55 | 69 | 74 | 55 | 59 | 53 | 71 | 41 | 33 | 23 | 37 | 28 | 18 | 14 | 25 | 23 | 21 | 24 | 21 | 19 |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 5+ | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | |||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 11 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 6 | 23 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Meningococcal Meningitis | 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 12 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | l | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis .. | 5 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 4 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 7 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 7 |
| Acute Polio Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 18 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | - | 10 | 321 | |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1‡ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1‡ | 3a | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | Not Notifiable | 3 | 36 | 460 | 1/391 | 917 | 258 | 1,498 | 815 | 964 | 1,559 | 1,098 | 988 | 2,198 | |||||||||||
| Whooping Cough | Not Notifiable | - | 19 | 262 | 227 | 241 | 293 | 67 | 258 | 430 | 578 | 498 | 1,027 | 625 | |||||||||||
| Food Poisoning | Not Notifiable | 4 | 5 | 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 114 | 82 | 102 | 59 | 75 | 77 | 148 | 100 | 88 | 101 | 1ll | 85 | 59 | 42 | 33 | 37 | 72 | 50 | 55 | 97 | 143 | 1ll | 88 | 41 | 58 |
| Totals | 1,455 | 1,689 | 1,531 | 1,184 | 660 | 1,137 | 1,134 | 1,567 | 858 | 677 | 742 | 648 | 426 | 287 | 909 | 1,679 | 1,611 | 804 | 1,832 | 1,432 | 1,803 | 2,523 | 2,029 | 2,382 | 3,459 |
+ Notifiable as Puerperal Pyrexia as from 1/10/37 † Notifiable as Puerperal Pyrexia * 1 Induced in an Institution.
a 1 Induced for therapeutic purposes: 2 Contracted abroad.