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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 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Monthly Incidence of Infectious Diseases during the Year 1957
| DISEASE | NUMBER OF CASES | TOTAL | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | Feb. | March | April | May | June | July | August | Sept. | October | Nov. | Dec. | ||
| Dysentery | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | |||||
| Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Erysipelas | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 10 | ||
| Food Poisoning | 2 | 6 | 5 | - | 2 | - | |||||||
| Measles | 2 | 102 | 120 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Meningococcal Infections | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | ||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| para-Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 2 | 5 | |||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | |||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 2 | 5 | 21 | - | 2 | |||||||
| Totals | 102 | 121 | |||||||||||
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