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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
Chingford 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (after correction)
| Year | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Erysipelas | Measles | Whooping Cough | Tuberculosis | Dysentery | Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Pneumonia | Meningococcal Infection | Acute Poliomyelitis | Acute Polio-Encephalitis | Acute Infective Encephalitis | Typhoid or Paratyphoid Fever | Food Poisoning | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Other forms | ||||||||||||||||
| 1948 | 78 | - | 13 | 355 | 190 | 42 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 78 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| 1949 | 105 | 1 | 17 | 499 | 174 | 34 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 83 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 4 |
| 1950 | 62 | 1 | 11 | 267 | 134 | 36 | 4 | 5 | 2 | - | 29 | 3 | 6 | - | - | 1 | 7 |
| 1951 | 81 | - | 8 | 940 | 463 | 44 | 6 | 39 | 1 | - | 54 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| 1952 | 181 | - | 6 | 893 | 66 | 30 | 4 | 10 | 1 | - | 24 | 1 | 4 | - | - | 1 | 4 |
| 1953 | 168 | - | 9 | 380 | 181 | 39 | 5 | 22 | - | - | 34 | 1 | 6 | - | 1 | - | 5 |