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 Kingston Group Hospital Management Committee (South
West Metropolitan Region) has supplied me with the following
figures for 195:-
ANALYSIS OF PATIENTS ADMITTED TO THE TOLWORTH ISOLATION HOSPITAL FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1951.
Chronic sick. | Diphtheria. | Scarlet fever. | Other diseases. | Total. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Surbiton | 2 | — | 23 | 37 | 62 |
Malden | 5 | — | 9 | 17 | 31 |
Esher | 2 | — | 3 | 22 | 27 |
9 | — | 35 | 76 | 120 |
The thirtyseven "other diseases" admitted to the hospital are
as follows:-
Dysentery 5
Measles 12
Measles and Pneumonia 1
Encephalitis following
measles 1
Whooping cough 4
Paratyphoid B. 1
Poliomyelitis 1
Meningitis 1
Salmonella poisoning 2
Gastro enteritis 1
Respiratory tuberculosis 8
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