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East Ham 1961

[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

DISEASEQUARTER ! EN DING 31.3.60QUARTER i ENDING ,30.6.60QUARTER ENDING 30.9.60QUARTER ENDING 31.12.60TOTAL 1960QUARTER ENDING 31.3.61QUARTER ENDING 30.6.61QUARTER ENDING 30.9.61QUARTER ENDING 31.12.61TOTAL 1961
Scarlet Fever31251516871197633
Whooping Cough2473121612799197237
* Acute Poliomyelitis1---1-----
Measles22144159106841410021584
Diphtheria----------
Pneumonia64212241483227
Dysentery192113-5117
Typhoid Fever----------
Paratyphoid Fever----------
Erysipelas32218423-9
Meningococcal Infection1--121---1
Food Poisoning244212117413
Puerperal Pyrexia--112--3-3
Ophthalmia Neonatorum----------
Tuberculosis - Respiratory1315137481619182275
Tuberculosis - Meninges & C.N.S.----------
Tuberculosis - Other411-6--314
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.