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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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES DURING THE YEARS ENDED 31st DECEMBER 1938 to 1947.
1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | |
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Diphtheria | 6 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 14 | - |
Scarlet fever | 80 | 24 | 6o | 24 | 80 | 299 | 149 | 45 | 38 | 31 |
Enteric fever | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
Paratyphoid fever | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal pyrexia | 8 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Pneumonia | 33 | 37 | 45 | 46 | 14 | 34 | 25 | 23 | 17 | 16 |
Erysipelas | 9 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 4 |
Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 19 |
??? Lethargica | - | - | - | - | — | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Cereb ro-spinal Fever | - | - | 17 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | 1 | 5 |
Dphthalmia neonatorum | 3 | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - |
Dysentery | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | 4 | - |
Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - |
Measles | 1 | 839 | 327 | 433 | 323 | 212 | 775 | 429 | 170 | |
Whooping cough | 4 | 6 | 369 | 65 | 176 | 52 | 90 | 48 | 108 | |
Chicken pox | 6 | |||||||||
Tota1 | 141 | 91 | 1,003 | 793 | 616 | 846 | 449 | 950 | 564 | 354 |
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