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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 1960

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

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Table: TABLE IIINOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEARS 1959 AND 1960

TABLE III

NOTIFIABLE DISEASES DURING THE YEARS 1959 AND 1960

DiseaseTotal cases notifiedCases admitted to hospitalTotal Deaths
196019591960195919601959
Scarlet Fever3994 (3)1224(3)--
Whooping Cough404151--
Measles4732839--
Pneumonia (notifiable)210-227†28†
Dysentery115(24)1066--
Puerperal Pyrexia67706669--
Erysipelas-5-4--
Food Poisoning55(52*)231---
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1(1)-----
Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic-2-2--
Non-Paralytic------
Typhoid-1-1--
TOTALS366584931182728
†Includes deaths from non-notifiable pneumonia. Figures in brackets denote number of cases subsequently not confirmed *This figure includes 26 cases subsequently confirmed as Shigella Sonnei Dysentery.

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