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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

West Ham 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]

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INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
(a) Infectious Diseases

Table: Table showing cases of infectious Disease Notified and Confirmed, 1958

Table showing cases of infectious Disease Notified and Confirmed, 1958

DiseasesAll Age GroupsAges
19581957Under 11-23-45-910-1415-2425 & overDeaths
Smallpox----------
Cholera---------
Diphtheria----------
Erysipelas1118---1--10-
Scarlet Fever374247-287521248101-
Typhoid Fever----------
Paratyphoid Fever----------
Typhus----------
Relapsing Fever----------
Plague----------
Acute Poliomyelitis (Paralytic)27----11-1
(Non-paralytic)19---1----
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1-1-------
Malaria----------
Dysentery13845211165915728-
Acute Pneumonia881474936755482 (All forms)
Tuberculosis:
Respiratory95105-1131236615
Meninges-2------
Other148-111-29-
Puerperal Pyrexia311-----3-
Measles4112,328217498203123--
Whooping Cough24223935674883621-
Food Poisoning301533343113-
Leprosy----------
Meningococcal Infection5622-1----
Acute Encephalitis: Infective----------
Post Infectious21------2-
TOTALS1,4173,18868196245574935718498