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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 1970

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]

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Sonne Dysentery
15 cases occurred during the year; 5 of these and 1 carrier
were of school age.
Tuberculosis
There were 29 cases of respiratory tuberculosis and 4 cases of
non-respiratory tuberculosis. 2 deaths occurred from respiratory
tuberculosis and 1 from non-pulmonary tuberculosis.

Table: Comparative Table of Notified Infectious Diseases 1965-1970

Comparative Table of Notified Infectious Diseases 1965-1970

Disease196519661967196819691970
Acute Pneumonia175293--
Scarlet Fever294233208641
Measles19717361899293283458
Whooping Cough201634201025
Puerperal Pyrexia41435827--
Poliomyelitis------
Acute Infective Encephalitis: Post-infective--1---
Infective------
Erysipelas4231--
Diphtheria------
Ophthalmia Neonatorum------
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers411-2-
Infective Jaundice---51437
Food Poisoning4-4-8-
Dysentery54146722710415
Meningococcal Infection------
Tuberculosis, Respiratory322746353129
Tuberculosis, Other261474
Leptospirosis----1-
Acute Meningitis----2-