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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 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Mitcham]
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31.
The monthly incidence
| Smallpox | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Typhoid Fever | Erysipelas | Pneumonia | Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Dysentery | Meningococcal Infections | Poliomyelitis Paralytic | Poliomyelitis Non-Paralytic | Measles | Whooping Cough | Food Poisoning | Paratyphoid | Malaria | Acute Encephalitis Infective | Acute Encephalitis Post-Infectious | Totals | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | 8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 30 |
| February | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 32 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | 44 |
| March | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 16 |
| April. | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 10 |
| May | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 11 |
| June | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 11 |
| July | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 38 |
| August | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 22 | |
| September | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | 17 |
| October | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 12 |
| November | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 28 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 34 |
| December | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 279 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 286 |
| Totals | - | 30 | - | - | - | 6 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 433 | 59 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 531 |