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 Port of London]
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APPENDIX II. INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
Disease. | 1930 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | Mean Annal No. of 10 years ending 31st December 1947 | 1947. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cholera(including suspected cases) | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.1 | - |
Yellow Fever - Do- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Plague -Do- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Smallpox | 4 | .5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 5 | 20 | 2 |
Scarlet Fever | 16 | 13 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 6'l | 10 |
Diphtheria | 9 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 6.8 | 5 |
Enteric Fever | 36 | 16 | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 9 | 79 | 5 |
Measles. | 49 | 40 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 11 | 14.7 | 26 |
German Measles | 25 | 34 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 6 | 9.7 | 5 |
Erysipelas | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1.0 | 1 |
Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 01 | - |
Tuberclosis- Pulmonary | 75 | 83 | 19 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 14 | 21 | 26.6 | 27 |
Other kinds | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.4 | - |
other (incuding) Diseases(chickn pox) | 540 | 388 | 178 | 88 | 179 | 273 | 180 | 115 | 79 | 2l2.4 | 102 |
Totals | 762 | 595 | 239 | 114 | 196 | 295 | 197 | 154 | 141 | 287.6 | 183 |
Disease | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | Mean Annal No. of 10 years ending 31st December 1947 | 1947. |
- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Yellow Fever -Do- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Plague -Do- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Smallpox | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 02 | - |
Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 14 | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3.1 | - |
Diphtheria | 5 | 4 | - | 9 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 4.5 | 4 |
Enteric Fever | 12 | 8 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2.7 | 2 |
Measles | 28 | 7 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6.0 | 10 |
Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | — | - | 0.3 | - |
Parotits | 4 | 9 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2.5 | 1 |
Other (including) Diseases (Cuiken pox) | 133 | 79 | 52 | 26 | 15 | 16 | 34 | 50 | 43 | 50.8 | 60 |
Dysentery | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 8 | 2.0 | 9 |
Totals | 199 | 107 | 58 | 37 | 24 | 25 | 46 | 68 | 71 | 72.1 | 86 |
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