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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 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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| Disease | Total not | cases fied | Cases a dmitted to hospital | Total Deaths | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 1961 | 1962 | 1961 | 1962 | 1961 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 26(3) | 14(3) | - | - | ||
| Whooping Cough | 3 | - | - | - | - | |
| Measles | 38(00l) | 542 | 3 | - | - | |
| Pneumonia (notifiable) | 1 | 1 | - | - | 44† | 44† |
| Dysentery | 2 | 1 | - | - | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 72 | 66 | 71 | 64 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | |||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paralytic | 1 | 1 | - | - | ||
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paratyphoid "A" | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
| Typhoid | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| TOTALS | 148 | 654 | 84 | 87 | 44 | 44 |
Includes deaths from non-notifiable pneumonia.
Figures in brackets denote number of cases subsequently
not confirmed.
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