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 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Twickenham]
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Table 25
| Diseases | NUMBER OF CASES | TOTAL | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. | Feb. | March | April | May | June | July | August | Sept. | Oct. | Nov. | Dec. | ||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | |
| Dysentery | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
| Erysipelas | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 5 | ||
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||
| Measles | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 26 | 24 | 75 | 163 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | |||
| Pneumonia | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Scarlet Fever | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 1 | 3 | 24 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Nil |
| Typhoid and Para-Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Whooping Cough | 8 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 23 |
| Totals | 16 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 15 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 29 | 29 | 84 | 236 |