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Surbiton 1947

[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.

DiphthericScarlet feverOther DiseasesTotal
Surbiton12871100
Malden and Coombe1434286
Esher266692
Paying patients (admitted from outside the Constituent District)231318
4100192296

The sixty-seven "other diseases" admitted to the hospital are as follows:-

Quinsy2
Mcningococca1 meningitis2
Pleural effusion1
Measles9
Measles and Broncho-pneumonia1
Tonsillitis8
Rubella4
Old Pertussis and Toxic rash1
Vincent's Angina1
Broncho-pneumonia1
Mumps1
Anterior Poliomylitis18
Erysipelas2
Chicken Pox4
Whooping Cough and Pneumonia2
Whooping Cough3
Acidosis1
Polio-Encephrlitis2
Influenza and Meningism1
Arthritis of Hip1
Meningism1
Post Nasal Catarrh1
Poliomylitis ?1
Urticaria1
Inguinal Adenitis1
Fibrositis1

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