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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 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]

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Table: Infectious Disease Notifications, 1934-53.

Infectious Disease Notifications, 1934-53.

Disease193419351936193719381939194019411942194319441945194619471.1.48 to 4.7.485.7.48 to 31.12.4819491950195119521953
Small Pox...............................................................
Scarlet Fever39214317119215061487517521297147956235578911011122586
Diphtheria8380101896427367225421063324...11............
Typhoid Fever...35...1............1...1............1.........
Puerperal Pyrexia6411547226358693...2...132311
Meningococcal Infections113121131268331211131...
Erysipelas302022168191719722131625918612781411
Measles..................3011945996511127393585338182523543541386591888
Typhus Fever...............................................................
Acute Poliomyelitis:
Paralytic.........1.....................23112262144
Non-Paralytic............................................................1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum243133131044...22638214...
Acute Encephalitis:
Infective........................1....................................
Post-Infectious......................................................1......
Pneumonia4535363243...302220503733413730131928242627
Malaria...........................11...1...1............1...
Whooping Cough...............41618616116216696234216117149212387420112336
Food Poisoning...............44611......51.........6341017
Dysentery...........................46713612571671615
Paratyphoid....................................12............1......
Totals5602938573382751254685911021116151511268078881033490717911198010271396