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 Kingston-upon-Thames]
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The following table gives a comparative statement of notifications of certain infectious diseases received during the last thirty years:-
TABLE V
Year | Diphtheria | Scarlet Fever | Measles | Whooping Cough | Poliomyelitis | Acute Infective Encephalitis | Puerperal Pyrexia | Enteric Fever (including Para-typhoid) | Ophthalmia Neonatorum |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1928 | 152 | 135 | 1 | — | 9 | 7 | 4 | ||
1929 | 113 | 74 | not notifiable until 1940 | not notifiable until 1940 | — | — | 5 | 1 | 3 |
1930 | 100 | 78 | — | — | 9 | 5 | 2 | ||
1931 | 53 | 61 | — | — | 14 | 1 | 4 | ||
1932 | 47 | 56 | 2 | — | 13 | 1 | — | ||
1933 | 30 | 125 | 3 | — | 10 | 2 | 2 | ||
1934 | 42 | 40 | — | — | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||
1935 | 50 | 54 | — | 8 | 2 | 3 | |||
1936 | 27 | 67 | — | - | 19 | 6 | 2 | ||
1937 | 21 | 51 | 2 | — | 32 | 1 | 3 | ||
1938 | 72 | 61 | 2 | — | 47 | 1 | 2 | ||
1939 | 19 | 69 | 1 | — | 66 | 1 | 3 | ||
1940 | 53 | 45 | 373 | 22 | — | — | 63 | 3 | 3 |
1941 | 15 | 54 | 331 | 271 | 1 | — | 37 | 7 | — |
1942 | 8 | 79 | 375 | 99 | _ | — | 24 | — | 3 |
1943 | 3 | 110 | 287 | 151 | 1 | — | 18 | 1 | — |
1944 | 7 | 49 | 33 | 73 | 1 | — | 15 | — | 2 |
1945 | 16 | 28 | 407 | 84 | 1 | — | 23 | — | 2 |
1946 | 8 | 34 | 283 | 67 | 2 | — | 41 | 1 | 1 |
1947 | 2 | 24 | 219 | 38 | 5 | 3 | 28 | 1 | 1 |
1948 | - | 34 | 197 | 200 | 3 | — | 30 | — | — |
1949 | - | 73 | 483 | 81 | 7 | 3 | 29 | — | — |
1950 | — | 51 | 132 | 41 | 4 | — | 23 | — | — |
1951 | — | 37 | 443 | 222 | — | 1 | 41 | — | — |
1952 | — | 29 | 280 | 102 | 3 | — | 84 | — | |
1953 | — | 21 | 302 | 126 | 5 | — | 80 | — | — |
1954 | — | 16 | 419 | 21 | 1 | 96 | — | — | |
1955 | — | 11 | 170 | 17 | 10 | 1 | 72 | — | — |
1956 | — | 17 | 35 | 58 | 3 | — | 88 | — | — |
1957 | — | 15 | 483 | 55 | 2 | 1 | 59 | — | — |