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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
Malden and Coombe 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Malden & Coombe]
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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 1959.
| Diseases. | Totals. | WARDS | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coombe. | Dickerage. | Mount. | Cambridge. | Norbiton Park. | Burlington. | Maiden Green. | St. James. | Maiden Manor. | ||
| Puerperal pyrexia. | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Measles. | 385 | 40 | 28 | 38 | 16 | 39 | 50 | 65 | 41 | 68 |
| Whooping cough. | 21 | 1 | 12 | 3 | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | - |
| Scarlet fever. | 33 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 6 |
| Pneumonia. | 25 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Erysipelas. | 6 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 |
| Acute encephalitis - infective. | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Food poisoning. | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Meningococcal infection. | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Dysentery. | 88 | 16 | 18 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 16 |
| Totals. | 564 | 64 | 65 | 56 | 31 | 56 | 61 | 81 | 53 | 97 |