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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
Richmond upon Thames 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Richmond]
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MILK (SPECIAL DESIGNATIONS) ORDER 1936.
| No. of samples of milk taken for analysis during the year | 26 |
| No. of samples found to be satisfactory | 26 |
| Applications granted for the renewal of licences to sell Special Designated Milk:— | |
| Pasteurised Milk | 17 |
| Tuberculin Tested Milk | 9 |
| Applications granted for the renewal of Pasteurisers' licences. | 1 |
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Notifiable Diseases during the year.
(Civilians only).
| Disease. | Total Cases Notified. | Cases Admitted to Hospitals. | Total Deaths. |
| Typhoid Fever .. | 12 | 12 | |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 2 | o | |
| Scarlet Fever | 33 | 20 | |
| Diphtheria | |||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | 2 | |
| Pneumonia | 18 | 1 | 27 (all forms) |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum... | 3 | 1 | |
| Erysipelas | 5 | 3 | |
| Measles | 209 | 8 | |
| Whooping Cough | 76 | 1 | |
| Total ... | 361 | 50 | 27 |