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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 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Table 26
| DISEASE | NUMBER OF CASES | TOTAL | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | Feb. | March | April | May | June | July | August | Sept. | October | Nov. | Dec. | ||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil |
| Dysentery | 1 | - | 1 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | T | 5 | 2 | 34 |
| Erysipelas | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 10 |
| Food Poisoning | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 6 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 42 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - . | - | Nil |
| Measles | 184 | 414 | 150 | 118 | 57 | 31 | 7 | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | 969 |
| Meningococcal Infections | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 5 | 26 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 80 |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 4 |
| Scarlet Fever | 11 | 19 | 20 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 116 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil |
| Typhoid and Para Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | - | 4 | 2 | 1 | 38 |
| Totals | 209 | 462 | 200 | 151 | 96 | 68 | on | 22 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 13 | 1296 |