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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 1963
[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, 1953 to 1963.
| Year | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 25 | 75 | - | 4 | - | 3 | 5 | 6 | 15 | 115 | 43 |
| Encephalitis Acute | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric (Typhoid or Paratyphoid Fever) | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Erysipelas | 7 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| Food Poisoning | 11 | 5 | 10 | - | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 3 |
| Malaria | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Measles | 306 | 5 | 489 | 16 | 606 | 136 | 433 | 8 | 654 | 14 | 385 |
| Membranous Group | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Meningococcal Infect'n | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Plague | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 27 | 11 | 31 | 25 | 28 | 47 | 61 | 11 | 29 | 15 | 14 |
| Poliomyelitis, Paralytic | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| „ Non-Paralytic | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 21 | 29 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 24 | 10 | 15 | 1 |
| Small-pox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis, Pul. | 37 | 27 | 23 | 18 | 19 | 28 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 20 | 21 |
| Non-Pul. | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 136 | 25 | 42 | 17 | 37 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 8 | - | 7 |