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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The quarterly returns to the Registrar-General were as follows %-
TABLE 7
| DISEASE | QUARTER ENDING 31.3.58 | QUARTER ENDING 30.6.58 | QUARTER ENDING 30.9.58. | QUARTER ENDING 31.12.58 | TOTAL 1958 | QUARTER ENDING 31.3.59 | QUARTER ENDING 30.6.59 | QUARTER ENDING 30.9.59 | QUARTER ENDING 31.12.59 | TOTAL 1959 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 29 | 35 | 40 | 47 | 151 | 39 | 15 | 34 | 58 | 146 |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 12 | 8 | 8 | 29 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 25 |
| + Acute poliomyelitis | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 3 |
| Measles | 6 | 22 | 129 | 162 | 319 | 1,449 | 472 | 39 | 1 | 1,961 |
| Diphtheria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Pneumonia | 22 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 41 | 30 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 42 |
| Dysentery | 16 | 21 | – | 76 | 113 | 1 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 24 |
| Typhoid Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Paratyphoid Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Erysipelas | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| Meningococcal Infection | – | – | 1 | –~ | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | 10 | 46 | 35 | 6 | 97 | – | 2 | 11 | 4 | 17 |
| puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Tuberculosis - Respiratory | 33 | 28 | 21 | 19 | 101 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 19 | 89 |
| Tuberculosis - Meninges & C.N.S. | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – |
| Tuberculosis - Other | 1 | 4 | 4 | – | 9 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
+ The division of the poliomyelitis cases between Paralytic and Non-Paralytic was ;
1958 1 959
Paralytic 2 1
Non-Paralytic 2 2
There were no deaths from the seven principal Zymotic diseases (Smallpox, Whooping Cough, Measless
Diphtheria, Diarrhoea,, Scarlet Fever and Enteric Fever.)
Details of the Notifications of tuberculosis are set out in Table 10.