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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

Mitcham 1941

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Table: Infectious Disease Notifications, 1922-41.

Infectious Disease Notifications, 1922-41.

Disease19221923192419251926192719281929193019311932193319341935193619371938193919401941
Small Pox..................97...41...........................
Scarlet Fever17811081106104145102134113105174240392143171192150614875
Diphtheria84355920187767513312949324083801048964273672
Typhoid Fever12142634923335...1.........
Continued Fever............................................................
Puerperal Fever3215694617511221............
Anthrax............................................................
Cerebro- spinal Meningitis1...6......214......141131211312
Cholera............................................................
Erysipelas131511101314102222171131302022168191719
Measles......................................................301194
Acute Diarrhoea.......................................1..................
Chicken Pox269135...................................................
Typhus Fever............................................................
Poliomyelitis...4......12......1..................1............
Ophthalmia Neonatorum3675121033134224313313
Polio-encephalitis............................................................
Encephalitis Lethargica.........22.........2111........................
Pneumonia3019394230625457354552374535363243...3022
Malaria83...11.............................................
Puerperal Pyrexia............114956949641154722
Whooping Cough...................................................416186
Food Poisoning...................................................446
Totals347287246376259340270375319242288368560293357338275125468591