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 Wimbledon]
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Notifications of Infections Disease during the last 10 years.
DISEASE | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 |
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Diphtheria | 4 | 4 | 6 | _ | _ | - | -' | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 2 | - | 2 | 7 | 53 | 36 | 19 | 14 | 2 | 15 |
Encephalitis Lethargica, acute | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
Food Poisoning | - | 5 | 2 | - | 4 | - | 6 | 13 | 2 | 11 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Measles | 253 | 481 | 707 | 364 | 758 | 337 | 896 | 18 | 813 | 64 |
Meningococcal Infection | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | _ |
Pneumonia | 32 | 15 | 19 | 20 | 27 | 24 | 29 | 18 | 21 | 34 |
Poliomyelitis | 25 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 7 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 22 | 4 | 7 | 12 |
Scarlet Fever | 51 | 95 | 55 | 68 | 136 | 128 | 96 | 49 | 77 | 110 |
Whooping-cough | 157 | 231 | 149 | 181 | 166 | 112 | 183 | 74 | 139 | 82 |
541 | 849 | 969 | 668 | 1,158 | 649 | 1,267 | 200 | 1,074 | 344 | |
Tuberculosis:- | ||||||||||
Pulmonary | 87 | 87 | 96 | 102 | 93 | 84 | 104 | 66 | 78 | 44 |
Non-Pulmonary | 8 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 |