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 | Scarlet Fever | Measles * | Whooping Cough * | Puerperal pyrexia | Poliomyelitis | Acute Infective Encephalitis | Diphtheria | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Enteric Fever (including para-typhoid) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1933 | 125 | - | - | 10 | 3 | - | 30 | 2 | 2 |
1934 | 40 | - | - | 5 | - | - | 42 | 3 | 2 |
1935 | 54 | - | - | 8 | - | - | 50 | 3 | 2 |
1936 | 67 | - | - | 19 | - | - | 27 | 2 | 6 |
1937 | 51 | - | - | 32 | 2 | - | 21 | 3 | 1 |
1938 | 61 | - | - | 47 | 2 | - | 72 | 2 | 1 |
1939 | 69 | - | - | 66 | 1 | - | 19 | 3 | 1 |
1940 | 45 | 373 | 22 | 63 | - | - | 53 | 3 | 3 |
1941 | 54 | 331 | 271 | 37 | 1 | - | 15 | - | 7 |
1942 | 79 | 375 | 99 | 24 | - | - | 8 | 3 | - |
1943 | 110 | 287 | 151 | 18 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 1 |
1944 | 49 | 33 | 73 | 15 | 1 | - | 7 | 2 | - |
1945 | 28 | 407 | 84 | 23 | 1 | - | 16 | 2 | - |
1946 | 34 | 283 | 67 | 41 | 2 | - | 8 | 1 | 1 |
1947 | 24 | 219 | 38 | 28 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
1948 | 34 | 197 | 200 | 30 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
1949 | 73 | 483 | 81 | 29 | 7 | 3 | - | - | - |
1950 | 51 | 132 | 41 | 23 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
1951 | 37 | 443 | 222 | 41 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
1952 | 29 | 280 | 102 | 84 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
1953 | 21 | 302 | 126 | 80 | 5 | - | - | - | - |
1954 | 16 | 419 | 21 | 96 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
1955 | 11 | 170 | 17 | 72 | 10 | 1 | - | - | - |
1956 | 17 | 35 | 58 | 88 | 3 | - | - | - | - |
1957 | 13 | 483 | 55 | 59 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
1958 | 11 | 200 | 9 | 60 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
1959 | 27 | 258 | 3 | 72 | - | - | - | - | - |
1960 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 89 | - | - | - | - | - |
1961 | 11 | 447 | - | 89 | - | - | - | - | - |
1962 | 4 | 19 | 5 | 38 | - | - | - | - | - |
* Measles - Not notifiable until 1940.
* Whooping Cough - Not notifiable until 1940.