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, 1949 to 1959.
| Year | 1949 | 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 38 | 27 | 17 | 42 | 21 | 29 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 9 |
| Typhoid Fever | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 8 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis, Pul. | 32 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 37 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 19 | 28 | 19 |
| „ Non-Pul. Ac. Encephalitis (Post | 6 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | - | 1 |
| Infectious) | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 10 | 1 | - | 8 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - |
| „ Non-Paralytic Ophthalmia | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 |
| Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | -_ | - |
| Meningococcal Infect'n | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 588 | 124 | 541 | 249 | 306 | 5 | 489 | 16 | 606 | 136 | 433 |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Polioencephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 |
| Dysentery | - | 3 | 4 | 11 | 25 | 75 | - | 4 | - | 3 | 5 |
| Pneumonia | 21 | 13 | 29 | 21 | 27 | 11 | 31 | 25 | 28 | 47 | 61 |
| Whooping Cough | 15 | 58 | 82 | 19 | 136 | 25 | 42 | 17 | 37 | 6 | |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | 1 | 11 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 5 | l |