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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 1960

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]

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Table: CORRECTED NOTIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES I960

CORRECTED NOTIFICATIONS FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES I960

WimbledonEngland and 'Wales
Rates per l,000 Home Population
Notifications:- (Corrected)
Scarlet Fever0.780.70
Whooping Cough0.951.26
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fever-0.00
Meningococcal Infection0.010.01
Acute Encephalitis-0.00
Diphtheria-0.00
Erysipelas-0.06
Smallpox--
Measles0.313.43
Pneumonia0.120.32
Acute Poliomyelitis -Paralytic-0.00
Non-paralytic-0.00
Food Poisoning0.030.16
Efcrsentery0.290.94
Tuberculosis -Pulmonary0.450.46
Non-pulmonary0.050.06
Puerperal Pyrexia3.33*11.03*

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* Per 1,000 total (live and still) births.
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