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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
Barnes 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barnes]
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Table 8. — Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1946 to 1956.
| Year | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | 5 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 43 | 27 | 30 | 38 | 27 | 17 | 42 | 21 | 29 | 7 | 8 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | i |
| Erysipelas | 5 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | I |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis, Pul. | 35 | 62 | 40 | 32 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 37 | 27 | 23 | 18 |
| Non-Pul. | 5 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Ac. Encephalitis (Post Infections) | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 1 | - | 8 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
| „ Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Meningococcal Infect'n | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Measles | 177 | 437 | 158 | 588 | 124 | 541 | 249 | 306 | 5 | 489 | 16 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Polioencephalitis | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | — | 1 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 71 | - | 4 | - | 3 | 4 | 11 | 25 | 75 | - | 4 |
| Pneumonia | 19 | 16 | 20 | 21 | 13 | 29 | 21 | 27 | 11 | 31 | 25 |
| Whooping Cough | 66 | 94 | 56 | 15 | 58 | 82 | 19 | 136 | 25 | 42 | 17 |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 11 | 5 | 10 | - |