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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 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Table: Infectious Disease Notifications, 1933-52.

Infectious Disease Notifications, 1933-52.

Disease1933193419351936193719381939194019411942194319441945194619471.1.48 to 4.7.485.7.48 to 31.12.481949195019511952
Small Pox...............................................................
Scarlet Fever240392143171192150614875175212971479562355789110111225
Diphtheria408380104896427367225421063324...11.........
Typhoid Fever3...35...1............1...1...............1......
Puerperal Pyrexia96411547226358693...2...1323
Meningococcal Infections4113121131268331211...131
Erysipelas313020221681917197221316259186127814
Measles.....................3011945996511127393585338182523543541386591
Typhus Fever...............................................................
Acute Poliomyelitis
Paralytic............1.....................2311226214
Non-Paralytic...............................................................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2243133131044...22638214
Acute Encephalitis :
Infective1........................1.................................
Post-Infectious.........................................................1...
Pneumonia374535363243...3022205037334137301319282426
Malaria..............................11...1...1............1
Whooping Cough..................41618616116216696234216117149212387420112
Food Poisoning..................44611......51.........63410
Dysentery..............................467136125716716
Paratyphoid.......................................12............1...
Totals368560293357338275125468591102111615151126807888103349071791119801027