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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

City of London 1945

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Port of London]

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Table: APPENDIX 1.BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF RATS DURING 1945.

APPENDIX 1.

BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF RATS DURING 1945.

Total examinedBLACK RATSBROWN RATSSPECIES UNKNOWNMICERats
Pound DeadTrapped Poisoned etc.Pound DeadTrapped Poisoned etc.Found DeadTrapped Poisoned etc.Pound DeadTrapped Poisoned etc.Infected with Plague.
1,030687260677----Nil.

Table: APPENDIX II. INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

APPENDIX II. INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Disease.1936.1937.1938.1939.1940.1941.1942.1943.1944.Mean Annual No. for 10 years ending 31st Dec. 1945.1945.
(a)
CASES REPORTED
Cholera (ir 1. suspected cases)--1------0.1-
Yellow „-----------
Fever Plague-----------
Smallpox9—45111—12.2-
Scarlet Fever1061613312546.55
Diphtheria1639134115357.45
Enteric Fever29283616711——12.24
Measles165749409111118.38
German Measles46253417521-9.62
Erysipelas224212——-1.3-
typhus Fever (incl. suspected cases).-1-------0.21
Tuberculosis -Pulmonary120947583194512643.214
Other kinds—231—-———0.6-
Other Diseases (including Chickenpox)54350854038817888179273180299.2115
Totals749707762595239114196295197400.8154