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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 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]

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35.
SECTION F
PREVENTION AMD CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
Diphtheria
For six years in succession no case of diphtheria has been
notified to the Health Department.
The following is a statement of the number of children immunised
during the year:-
Primary immunisations -under 5 years- 402
" " -5 to 15 years- 7
Total- 409
Number receiving secondary or
reinforcing injections- 150
Scarlet Fever
Although the total of 66 cases of scarlet fever was double that
for 1955, all of them were of a mild character and responded rapidly
to treatment.

Table: The following table indicates the cases notified during the past five years and the percentage of cases removed to hospital:-

The following table indicates the cases notified during the past five years and the percentage of cases removed to hospital:-

l9521953195419551956
Confirmed cases181168643365
Percent-age removed to hospital4737172726

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Measles
The incidence of measles in the borough was very slight, only
59 cases being notified. None of them needed admission to hospital.
Convalescent serum was available from the Central Public Health
Laboratory at Colindale for the treatment of cases and the protection
of contacts.
Whooping Cough
This disease was the most prevalent of the infectious diseases,
with a total of 249 notifications. One child, aged 3 months, died
from this cause, the first death that has occurred from whooping cough
in the borough for several years.
386 children received a full course of immunisation against this
condition during the year.