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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Monthly Incidence of Infectious Diseases during the Year 1954.
DISEASE | NUMBER OF CASES | TOTAL | |||||||||||
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January | February | M arch | April | May | June | July | August | Sept. | October | Nov. | Dec. | ||
Dysentery | 5 | 12 | 5 | - | 4 | 5 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 35 |
Encephalitis | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 |
Erysipelas | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 15 |
Food Poisoning | - | 3 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | - | - | 54 |
Measles | 4 | 75 | 139 | 79 | 25 | 20 | 116 | 60 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 523 |
Meningococcal Infections | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 4 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 6 |
Para-Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Pneumonia | 20 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 2 | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 82 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 |
Scarlet Fever | 7 | 7 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | 8 | 1 | 64 |
Whooping Cough | 10 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 74 |
Totals | 47 | 119 | 181 | 105 | 57 | 49 | 136 | 79 | 29 | 12 | 31 | 23 | 868 |
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