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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 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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| Disease | Total cases notified | Cases admitted to hospital | Total Deaths | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 1958 | 1959 | 1958 | 1959 | 1958 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 94(3) | 46(2) | 24(3) | 19 | ||
| Whooping Cough | 41 | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Measles | 328 | 330 | 9 | 2 | - | - |
| Pneumonia (notifiable) | 10 | 20 | 2 | 1 | 28† | 34† |
| Dysentery | 10 | 16 | 6 | 2 | - | -- |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 70 | 58 | 69 | 54 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 5 | 2 | 4 | - | - | - |
| Food Poisoning | 23 | 3 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - |
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | -- |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhoid | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Malaria | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| TOTALS | 584 | 487 | 118 | 82 | 28 | 34 |
†Includes deaths from non-notifiable pneumonia.
Figures in brackets denote number of cases subsequently
not confirmed.
TABLE IV
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM
-
Cases
Notified
Cases
treated
at home
Cases
treated in
hospital
Vision
unimpaired
Vision
inpaired
Total
blindness
Deaths
-
-
-
-
-
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67