London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Mitcham 1949

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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The school notices also give fairly accurate estimates of the prevalence of non-notifiable infectious disease, such as chicken pox, mumps, etc. The numbers were as follows: —

Chicken pox26
Mumps17
Jaundice3
Ringworm1
Measles43
Whooping cough48
Scarlet fever29
Poliomyelitis1
Pulmonary tuberculosis1

Cancer

The number of deaths from cancer registered during the year was 124, of which 69 were males and 55 were females. The site distribution for 1949 was as follows: —

Digestive organs21 cases
Genito-urinary organs8 „
Breast8 „
Other sites87 „
Total124