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Malden and Coombe 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Malden & Coombe]

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Chicken pox1
Tonsillitis3
Cerebro-spinal fever (not confirmed)3
Vincents agina2
Impetigo1
Poliomyelitis (not confirmed)1
Erysipelas3
Dysentery, diarrhoea, etc.26
Quinsy1
99

NUMBER OF NOTIFICATIONS RECEIVED YEARLY FOR THE PAST SIX YEARS.

194019411942194319441945
Scarlet fever4623481859825
Diphtheria5781—10
Typhoid fever3—————
Paratyphoid fever21————
Erysipelas264995
Pneumonia182012461214
Encephalitis Lethargica——————
Puerperal pyrexia2157—4
Cerebro-spinal fever1566222
Acute Poliomyelitis——————
Ophthalmia Neonatorum———1——
Dysentery—2281953
Malaria————3428
Measles40923236022122589
Whooping cough13133281434443
Tuberculosis (all forms)495363443644
Suspected Food Poisoning4—————

GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN
THE AREA.

The following table shows the number of pathological examinations during the past year:—

Types of SpecimenResults
PositiveNegativeTotals
TuberculosisSputa43236
Haemolytic StreptococciSwabs41317
DiphtheriaSwabs9115124
DysenteryFaeces64147
Miscellaneous—33
Totals23204227