London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Wimbledon 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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Notifications of Infectious Disease during the last 10 years.
| DISEASE | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 12 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| Diphtheria | 9 | 15 | 10 | 20 | 24 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 6 |
| Dysentery | — | — | 3 | — | 89 | 18 | 4 | 2 | — | 2 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica, acute | - | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | 19 | 8 | 6 | _ | _ | _ | _ | - | 1 | — |
| Erysipelas | 11 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| Food Poisoning | 4 | 3 | - | — | — | 1 | — | — | 5 | 2 |
| Malaria | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 7 | — | — | — |
| Measles | 56 | 77 | 556 | 272 | 57 | 586 | 339 | 253 | 481 | 707 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 23 | 20 | 20 | 30 | 25 | 27 | 26 | 32 | 15 | 19 |
| Polioencephalitis | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 12 | 2 | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 2 | 9 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 6 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| Scarlet Fever | 40 | 39 | 100 | 186 | 77 | 46 | 37 | 51 | 95 | 55 |
| Whooping-cough | 10 | 144 | 34 | 115 | 117 | 54 | 114 | 157 | 231 | 149 |
| 194 | 333 | 763 | 659 | 420 | 780 | 571 | 541 | 849 | 969 | |
| Tuberculosis:— Pulmonary | 58 | 71 | 64 | 59 | 66 | 76 | 84 | 87 | 87 | 96 |
| Non-Pulmonary | 9 | 12 | 16 | 12 | 10 | 16 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 10 |