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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 1954

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

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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.

Table: TABLE IVNOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEARS 1953 AND 1954

TABLE IV

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEARS 1953 AND 1954

DiseaseTotal cases notifiedCases admitted to hospitalTotal Deaths
195419531954195319S41953
Scarlet Fever95652932--
Whooping Cough9141110-1
Measles47810117--
Pneumonia (notifiable)18†436†717‡24‡
Dysentery12†113†5--
Typhoid1-1-1-
Puerperal Pyrexia318-18--
Erysipelas9311--
Meningococcal Infection1212--
Food Poisoning4232---
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3121--
Malaria1111--
Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic4†34†3-1
Non-Paralytic-3-3--
Diphtheria------
TOTALS2071124521001826

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* In addition, one case was subsequently not confirmed.
†Includes one case subsequently not confirmed.
‡Includes deaths from non-notifiable pneumonia.

Table: TABLE VOPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM

TABLE V

OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM

Cases NotifiedCases treated at homeCases treated in hospitalVision unimpairedVision impairedTotal blindnessDeaths
3213---

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