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 Twickenham]
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Typhoid. Immunization
Facilities wero available at the clinics for typhoid
immunization, but no cases were dealt with during the year.
INCIDENCE AND MORTALITY DIPHTHERIA, SCARLET FEVER AND ENTERIC FEVER
1937 - 1945
YEAR | DIPHTHERIA | SCARLET. FEVER | ENTERIC FEVER | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. of Cases. | Case Rate per 1,000 pop. | No. of deaths | Death Rate per 1,000 pop. | No. of Cases. | Case Rate per 1,000 pop. | No. of deaths | Death Rate per 1,000 pop. | No. of Cases. | Case Rate per 1, 000 pop. | No. of deaths | Death Rate per 1,000 pop. | |
1937 | 116 | 1.23 | 2 | 0.02 | 148 | 1.57 | - | - | 2 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.01 |
1958 | 70 | 0.72 | 5 | 0.05 | 274 | 2.83 | 1 | 0.01 | - | - | - | - |
1939 | 25 | 0.25 | 3 | 0.03 | 93 | 0.95 | - | - | 2 | 0.02 | - | - |
1940 | 18 | 0.19 | 3 | 0. 03 | 38 | 0.41 | - | - | 2 | 0.02 | - | - |
1941 | 25 | 0.27 | 3 | 0.03 | 78 | 0.85 | - | - | 7 | 0.07 | - | - |
1942 | 7 | 0.08 | 1 | 0.01 | 125 | 1.35 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0.01 |
1943 | 4 | 0.04 | 1 | 0.01 | 238 | 2.56 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
1944 | 5 | 0.06 | 3 | 0.03 | 121 | 1.37 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
1945 | 4 | 0.04 | 1 | 0.01 | 97 | 1.06 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Smallpox
No case of smallpox was notified during the year. Twenty
contact's were kept under observation by the Department.
Pneumonia, Malaria and Dysentery
Pneumonia. There were 51 cases of pneumonia notified during 1945
an increase of two on the previous year. Deaths numbered 55,
Malaria. Two cases of malaria were notified during the year, one
of which was treated in hospital. Both cases were contracted
abroad.
Dysentery. Pour cases of dysentery were notified and treated in
hospital during the year. There were no deaths.
Acute Poliomyelitis, Acute Polio-encephalitis
Two cases or acute anterior poliomyelitis were notified during
the year. Both were treated in hospital. There was one death.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1937-45
The following table shows the number of cases notified and
result of treatment:
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