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
Chingford 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chingford]
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42.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES (after correction)
| Year | Scarlet Fever | Erysipelas | Measles | Whooping Cough | Tuberculosis | Dysentery | Puerperal Pyrexia | Pneumonia | Meningococcal Infection | Acute Poliomyelitis | Acute Infective Encephalitis | Typhoid or Paratyphoid Fever | Food Poisoning | Malaria | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary | Other forms | |||||||||||||||
| 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 | - | |
| 1954 | 64 | 5 | 195 | 138 | 30 | 2 | 17 | 2 | 17 | - | 4 | - | - | 3 | 1 | |
| 1955 | 33 | 5 | 492 | 14 | 20 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 12 | - | - | 9 | - | |
| 1956 | 65 | 5 | 5* | 249 | 20 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 * | 4 | 1 | |
| 1957 | 54 | 5 | 870 | 52 | 32 | 3 | - | - | 26 | - | 3 | ~ | - | 7 | - | |