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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
Kingston upon Thames 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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The following table gives a comparative statement of notifications received during the last twenty-nine years in respect of certain infectious diseases:-
TABLE VII
| Year | Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Measles | Whooping Cough | Acute Infective Encephalitis | • Polioencephalitis | Poliomyelitis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 4 | 302 | 79 | 1 | 6 | - | - | 1 | ||
| 1922 | 1 | 238 | 74 | 1 | 6 | - | - | - | ||
| 1923 | 1 | 118 | 17 | 2 | 5 | - | - | - | ||
| 1924 | 6 | 143 | 20 | - | 4 | - | - | 1 | ||
| 1925 | 7 | 213 | 25 | 4 | 5 | - | — | 3 | ||
| 1926 | 7 | 82 | 27 | 4 | 2 | — | - | 2 | ||
| 1927 | 3 | 87 | 65 | 9 | 3 | - | — | 1 | ||
| 1928 | 7 | 135 | 152 | 9 | 4 | - | - | 1 | ||
| 1929 | 1 | 74 | 113 | 5 | 3 | - | - | - | ||
| 1930 | 5 | 78 | 100 | 9 | 2 | - | - | - | ||
| 1931 | 1 | 61 | 53 | 14 | 4 | — | - | — | ||
| 1932 | 1 | 56 | 47 | 13 | - | — | - | 2 | ||
| 1933 | 2 | 125 | 30 | 10 | 2 | — | — | 3 | ||
| 1934 | 2 | 40 | 42 | 5 | 3 | — | - | - | ||
| 1935 | 2 | 54 | 50 | 8 | 3 | — | — | — | ||
| 1936 | 6 | 67 | 27 | 19 | 2 | - | — | - | ||
| 1937 | 1 | 51 | 21 | 32 | 3 | — | - | 2 | ||
| 1938 | 1 | 61 | 72 | 47 | 2 | — | - | 2 | ||
| 193$ | 1 | 69 | 19 | 66 | 3 | - | - | 1 | ||
| 1940 | 3 | 45 | 53 | 63 | 3 | 373 | 22 | - | - | - |
| 1941 | 7 | 54 | 15 | 37 | - | 331 | 271 | - | - | 1 |
| 1942 | - | 79 | 8 | 24 | 3 | 375 | 99 | — | — | — |
| 1943 | 1 | 110 | 3 | 18 | - | 287 | 151 | - | - | 1 |
| 1944 | — | 49 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 33 | 73 | - | — | 1 |
| 1945 | - | 28 | 16 | 23 | 2 | 407 | 84 | - | - | 1 |
| 1946 | 1 | 34 | 8 | 41 | 1 | 283 | 67 | - | — | 2 |
| 1947 | 1 | 24 | 2 | 28 | 1 | 219 | 38 | - | 3 | 5 |
| 1948 | - | 34 | — | 30 | — | 197 | 200 | - | - | 3 |
| 1949 | - | 73 | - | 29 | — | 483 | 81 | - | 3 | 7 - |
Scarlet Ffiver.
Seventy-three cases of mild Scarlet Fever were notified,
forty-nine of which were of school age,, No deaths occurred and
no "return" cases. Fifty-three of the cases notified were
removed to an infectious diseases hospital for treatment and the
remainder were treated at home.
Diphtheria„
No cases of diphtheria were notified, for the second time
in the years for which records are available,,
Intensive work is continued to immunise the school and preschool
population against diphtheria, and the table on the following
page shows the stage reached by the end of 1949«