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 Malden & Coombe]
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German Measles | 7 |
Whooping Cough | 1 |
Chicken-pox and Impetigo | 1 |
Erysipelas | 1 |
Suspected Erysipelas | 1 |
Enteritis | 1 |
Otitis media | 1 |
102 |
CASES REMOVED TO HOSPITALS OTHER THAN TOLWORTH.
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 3 |
Typhoid or Para-typhoid | 3 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 |
7 |
NUMBER OF NOTIFICATIONS RECEIVED YEARLY FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS.
1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Scarlet Fever | 35 | 45 | 39 | 68 | 96 | 46 |
Diphtheria | 22 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 6 | 5 |
Enteric Fever (including Para-typhoid) | — | — | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Erysipelas | 4 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 2 |
Pneumonia | 10 | 16 | 19 | 24 | 24 | 18 |
Encephalitis Lethargica | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Puerperal Fever | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 2 |
Cerebro-Spinal Fever | — | — | — | 1 | — | 15 |
Acute Poliomyelitis | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — | 2 | — | 1 | — |
Dysentery | 10 | — | 12 | 2 | — | — |
Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — |
*Measles | — | — | — | — | — | 409 |
*Whooping Cough | — | — | — | — | — | 13 |
Tuberculosis (all forms) | 42 | 36 | 46 | 37 | 38 | 49 |
*Notifiable since November, 1939.