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 Barnes]
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SECTION 'F' — PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Table 6. — Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1948 to 1958.
Year | 1948 | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Diphtheria | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 30 | 38 | 27 | 17 | 42 | 21 | 29 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 10 |
Typhoid Fever | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | |
Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | - |
Erysipelas | 10 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis, Pul. | 40 | 32 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 37 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 19 | 28 |
„ Non-Pul. | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | - |
Ac. Encephalitis (Post Infections) | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 4 | 10 | 1 | - | 8 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
„ Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
Meningococcal Infect'n | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - |
Measles | 158 | 588 | 124 | 541 | 249 | 306 | 5 | 489 | 16 | 606 | 136 |
Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Polioencephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | — | 1 | 1 | - | 2 |
Dysentery | 4 | - | 3 | 4 | 11 | 25 | 75 | - | 4 | - | 3 |
Pneumonia | 20 | 21 | 13 | 29 | 21 | 27 | 11 | 31 | 25 | 28 | 47 |
Whooping Cough | 56 | 15 | 58 | 82 | 19 | 136 | 25 | 42 | 17 | 37 | 6 |
Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | 1 | 11 | 5 | 10 | - | 11 | 5 |