London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Twickenham 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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| Disease | Twickenham | Heath-field | Hampton Hill | Teddington | Hampton Wick | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| East | Central | South | West | Whitton | Hampton | Upper | Lower | |||||
| Dysentery | 9 | 34 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 77 | ||||
| Encephalitis | — | — | ||||||||||
| Erysipelas | — | 1 | — | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | |||||
| Food Poisoning | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — | 19 | 4 | — | 4 | 33 | ||
| Measles | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 86 | 33 | 42 | 7 | 13 | 208 |
| Meningococcal Infections | — | — | — | |||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — | 4 | — | 4 | |||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | |||||||
| Para-Typhoid | — | |||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 59 | |||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | 1 | 7 | 1 | 9 | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 51 | |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 26 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 91 |
| Totals. | 17 | 7 | 30 | 60 | 22 | 20 | 156 | 94 | 71 | 28 | 38 | 543 |