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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Table 24
| Diseases | NUMBER OF CASES | TOTAL | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. | Feb. | March | April | May | June | July | August | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | ||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | ||||
| Dysentery | - | - | 1 | 8 | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | 16 | |||
| Erysipelas | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 | ||||
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | ||||||
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Measles | 94 | 170 | 232 | 282 | 119 | 71 | 42 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1027 | |
| Meningococcal Infections | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | ||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | ||||
| pneumonia | 6 | 8 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 29 | ||
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | ||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 5 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 12 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 34 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | |
| Typhoid and Para Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | ||||
| Whooping cough | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 41 | |||
| Totals | 104 | 184 | 241 | 289 | 133 | 84 | 54 | 37 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 2 | 1165 |