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 Surbiton]
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PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The Clerk to the Tolworth Joint Hospital District Board has
kindly supplied me with the following figures for 1947.
ANALYSIS OF PATIENTS ADMITTED THE TOLVORTH ISOLATION HOSPITAL FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1947.
Diphtheric | Scarlet fever | Other Diseases | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Surbiton | 1 | 28 | 71 | 100 |
Malden and Coombe | 1 | 43 | 42 | 86 |
Esher | — | 26 | 66 | 92 |
Paying patients (admitted from outside the Constituent District) | 2 | 3 | 13 | 18 |
4 | 100 | 192 | 296 |
The sixty-seven "other diseases" admitted to the hospital are as follows:-
Quinsy | 2 |
Mcningococca1 meningitis | 2 |
Pleural effusion | 1 |
Measles | 9 |
Measles and Broncho-pneumonia | 1 |
Tonsillitis | 8 |
Rubella | 4 |
Old Pertussis and Toxic rash | 1 |
Vincent's Angina | 1 |
Broncho-pneumonia | 1 |
Mumps | 1 |
Anterior Poliomylitis | 18 |
Erysipelas | 2 |
Chicken Pox | 4 |
Whooping Cough and Pneumonia | 2 |
Whooping Cough | 3 |
Acidosis | 1 |
Polio-Encephrlitis | 2 |
Influenza and Meningism | 1 |
Arthritis of Hip | 1 |
Meningism | 1 |
Post Nasal Catarrh | 1 |
Poliomylitis ? | 1 |
Urticaria | 1 |
Inguinal Adenitis | 1 |
Fibrositis | 1 |
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