Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camden]
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NOTIFIABLE DISEASES 1965
Table 4
Disease | Male | Female | Total |
---|---|---|---|
Diphtheria | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 63 | 73 | 136 |
Encephalitis (infectious) | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Enteric fever, typhoid, | - | _ | . |
paratyphoid | - | 1 | 1 |
Erysipelas | 5 | 5 | 10 |
Food poisoning | 18 | 15 | 33 |
Measles | 680 | 599 | 1,279 |
Membranous croup | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Meningococcal infection | 4 | - | 4 |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Pneumonia, acute primary | 13 | 4 | 17 |
acute influenzal | 2 | - | 2 |
Poliomyelitis | - | - | - |
Puerperal pyrexia | - | 13 | 13 |
Malaria | 1 | - | 1 |
Scabies | 42 | 31 | 73 |
Scarlet fever | 16 | 21 | 37 |
Smallpox | - | - | - |
Whooping cough | 20 | 11 | 31 |
Total | 867 | 776 | 1,643 |
Tuberculosis | |||
Pulmonary | 92 | 55 | 147 |
Non pulmonary | 6 | 13 | 19 |
Total | 98 | 68 | 166 |