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
East Ham 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 9 – TOTAL CASES OF NOTIFIABLE DISEASES, 1935–1959
| 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Scarlet Fever | 411 | 359 | 387 | 187 | 196 | 77 | 68 | 210 | 271 | 132 | 153 | 193 | 179 | 222 | 289 | 270 | 203 | 343 | 245 | 172 | 32 | 27 | 145 | 151 | 146 |
| Diphtheria | 254 | 134 | 149 | 141 | 91 | 47 | 45 | 49 | 59 | 33 | 31 | 19 | 46 | 14 | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 2 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 10 | 3 | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 3 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Paratyphoid Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 4 | 1 | – | – |
| Erysipelas | 55 | 59 | 53 | 71 | 41 | 33 | 23 | 37 | 28 | 18 | 14 | 25 | 23 | 21 | 24 | 21 | 19 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 14 | 13 | 8 | 12 |
| Puerperal Fever | 12 | 7 | 5+ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 14 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 3 | – | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | – | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 3 | – | – | – |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 13 | 2 | 4 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 7 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 24 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 3 |
| Acute Polio Encephalitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Dysentery | – | – | 3 | 18 | – | – | – | – | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 2 | – | 1 | 10 | 321 | 3 | 285 | 41 | 11 | 45 | 167 | 113 | 24 |
| Malaria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1‡ | 3a | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1b | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Measles | NOT NOTIFIABLE | 3 | 36 | 460 | 1091 | 971 | 258 | 1498 | 815 | 964 | 1559 | 1098 | 988 | 2198 | 1883 | 960 | 30 | 2240 | 316 | 807 | 319 | 1961 | |||
| Whooping Cough | NOT NOTIFIABLE | – | 19 | 262 | 227 | 241 | 293 | 67 | 258 | 430 | 578 | 498 | 1027 | 625 | 361 | 554 | 117 | 208 | 168 | 116 | 29 | 25 | |||
| Food Poisoning | NOT NOTIFIABLE | 4 | 5 | 23 | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 41 | 13 | 97 | 17 | |||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 88 | 101 | 111 | 85 | 59 | 42 | 33 | 37 | 72 | 50 | 55 | 97 | 143 | 111 | 88 | 41 | 58 | 61 | 70 | 45 | 60 | 54 | 75 | 41 | 42 |
| Tuberculosis -Pulmonary | 184 | 186 | 188 | 149 | 157 | 130 | 139 | 164 | 200 | 156 | 205 | 194 | 211 | 211 | 148 | 142 | 117 | 101 | 126 | 127 | 110 | 118 | 99 | 100 | 89 |
| Non-pulmonary | 37 | 31 | 39 | 20 | 24 | 30 | 22 | 22 | 23 | 15 | 16 | 9 | 26 | 20 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 9 |
| Totals | 1079 | 894 | 969 | 817 | 607 | 447 | 1070 | 1865 | 1834 | 975 | 2053 | 1635 | 2040 | 2754 | 2188 | 2538 | 3592 | 2815 | 2295 | 575 | 2721 | 809 | 1468 | 874 | 2330 |
+ Notifiable as Puerperal Pyrexia as from 1/10/37.
† Notifiable as Puerperal Pyrexia
a 1 Induced for therapeutic purposes, 2 Contracted abroad,
b Contracted abroad
‡ 1 Induced in an Institution.