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 7. — Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1952 to 1962.
Year | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 11 | 25 | 75 | - | 4 | - | 3 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 115 |
Encephalitis Acute | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Enteric (Typhoid or Paratyphoid Fever) | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | |
Erysipelas | 8 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | |
Food Poisoning | 1 | 11 | 5 | 10 | - | 11 | i | 1 | 2 | 7 | 12 |
Malaria | - | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | ||
Measles | 249 | 306 | 5 | 489 | 16 | 606 | 136 | 433 | 8 | 654 | 14 |
Membranous Group | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Meningococcal Infect' n | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | 21 | 27 | 11 | 31 | 25 | 28 | 47 | 61 | 11 | 29 | 15 |
Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 8 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
„ Non-Paralytic | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 42 | 21 | 29 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 24 | 10 | 15 |
Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis, Pul. | 39 | 37 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 19 | 28 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 20 |
” Non-Pul. | 7 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Whooping Cough | 19 | 136 | 25 | 42 | 17 | 37 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 8 | - |