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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

Brentford and Chiswick 1944

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
A. - NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING.THE.YEAR.
Disease
Total
Cases.
notified
Gases
admitted
Hospital
Total
Deaths
Small-pox
-
-
-
Scarlet Fever
44*
28#
-
Diphtheria
4
6#
1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
3
13
-
Pneumonia (all forms)
6
3
50
Erysipelas
8
1
-
Measles
35
3
-
Whooping-cough
55
-
-
Malaria
1
\; -
-
Puerperal Pyrexia
10
10
-
* Includes one case non-civilian.
# includes three cases of scarlet. Fever and -two cases of Diphtheria
removed to Hospital who were discharged ''diagnosis not.
confirmed".
B. - OPHTHALMIA NEQNATORUM.
Cases
Notified
Cases
treated
at - Home
Cases
treated
in
Hospital
Vision
impaired
Vision
impaired
Total
no.???
Deaths
3
-
3
3
Nil
Nil
Nil
SECTION 'D'