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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

Hackney 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]

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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in Hackney:—
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica. Erysipelas.
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia. Glanders.
Acute Polioencephalitis. Hydrophobia.
Acute Poliomyelitis. Malaria.
Acute Primary Pneumonia Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Anthrax Plague.
Cerebro-spinal Fever. Puerperal Fever.
Cholera. Puerperal Pyrexia.
Continued Fever Relapsing Fever.
Diphtheria (or Membranous Croup). Scarlatina (or Scarlet Fever).
Dysentery. Smallpox.
Enteric (Typhoid or Paratyphoid) Tuberculosis.
Fever Typhus Fever.

Table: † Table showing the Notifications received, Removals to Hospitals and Deaths from Infectious Diseases (except Tuberculosis) in1937.

† Table showing the Notifications received, Removals to Hospitals and Deaths from Infectious Diseases (except Tuberculosis) in1937.

Disease.Number of Cases Notified.Number of Cases admitted to Hospitals.Number of Deaths.
Scarlet Fever3803402
Diphtheria2422428
Enteric Fever661
Puerperal Fever22221
Puerperal Pyrexia7371..
Acute Primary Pneumonia14312036
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia512815
Erysipelas106862
Cerebro-spinal Fever993
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2820..
Poliomyelitis551
Dysentery2820..
Malaria11..
Encephalitis Lethargica113
Polio-encephalitis....1
Totals1,09597173
†Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from this table.