Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 6
DISEASE | QUARTER ! EN DING 31.3.60 | QUARTER i ENDING ,30.6.60 | QUARTER ENDING 30.9.60 | QUARTER ENDING 31.12.60 | TOTAL 1960 | QUARTER ENDING 31.3.61 | QUARTER ENDING 30.6.61 | QUARTER ENDING 30.9.61 | QUARTER ENDING 31.12.61 | TOTAL 1961 |
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Scarlet Fever | 31 | 25 | 15 | 16 | 87 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 33 |
Whooping Cough | 24 | 73 | 121 | 61 | 279 | 9 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 37 |
* Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Measles | 2 | 2 | 14 | 41 | 59 | 1068 | 414 | 100 | 2 | 1584 |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 24 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 27 |
Dysentery | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 13 | - | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | - | 9 |
Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
Food Poisoning | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 13 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 3 | - | 3 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis - Respiratory | 13 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 48 | 16 | 19 | 18 | 22 | 75 |
Tuberculosis - Meninges & C.N.S. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis - Other | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 6 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Malaria .. | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
* This case of Acute Poliomyelitis was paralytic
There were no deaths from the seven principal Zymotic diseases (Smallpox, Whooping Cough,
Measles, Diphtheria, Diarrhoea, Scarlet Fever and Enteric Fever.)
Details of the Notifications of tuberculosis are set out in Table 7.