London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Camden 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Camden]
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| Disease | Male | Female | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 1968 | 1967 | 1968 | 1967 | 1968 | |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 28 | 52 | 30 | 70 | 58 | 122 |
| Encephalitis (infectious) | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Enteric fever, typhoid, | - | 3 | - | - | - | 3 |
| paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Food poisoning | 23 | 25 | 16 | 25 | 39 | 50 |
| Infective jaundice | - | 42 | - | 38 | - | 80 |
| Measles | 549 | 206 | 579 | 185 | 1, 128 | 391 |
| Membranous croup | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Meningococcal infection | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Pneumonia, acute influenzal | 6 | - | 6 | 1 | 12 | 1 |
| acute primary | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Poliomylitis | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal pyrexia | - | - | 17 | 12 | 17 | 12 |
| Malaria | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Scabies | 43 | 42 | 40 | 43 | 83 | 85 |
| Scarlet fever | 18 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 31 | 21 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping cough | 27 | 13 | 31 | 10 | 58 | 23 |
| Total | 703 | 400 | 740 | 403 | 1, 443 | 803 |
| Tuberculosis Pulmonary | 77 | 68 | 36 | 27 | 113 | 95 |
| Non pulmonary | 12 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 13 |
| Total | 89 | 75 | 43 | 33 | 132 | 108 |