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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
Surbiton 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The table shows the incidence of infectious diseases during the past ten years.
| 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 45 | 38 | 48 | 23 | 23 | 30 | 24 | 18 | 13 | 12 |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 9 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 14 | 19 | 18 | 32 | 6 | 22 | 10 | 19 | 11 | 19 |
| Erysipelas | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | - | 5 | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis | 2 | 8 | 1 | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Encephalitis | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 12 | 25 | 289 | 202 | 28 | 123 | 2 | - | 12 | 76 |
| Malaria | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Food Poisoning | 5 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 20 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 8 |
| Measles | 114 | 998 | 228 | 838 | 362 | 1139 | 24 | 897 | 55 | 715 |
| Whooping Cough | 41 | 70 | 78 | 41 | 8 | 11 | 41 | 13 | 1 | 23 |
| totals | 249 | 1169 | 686 | 1160 | 450 | 1337 | 118 | 960 | 102 | 857 |
The list of compulsorily notifiable diseases by General Medical
Petitioners in the Borough is as follows:-
Anthrax Malaria
Cholera Measles
Diphtheria Membranous Croup
Dysentery Meningococcal Infection
Encephalitis (Acute) Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Enteric (Typhoid or Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
Paratyphoid) Fever Smallpox
Plague Tuberculosis
Pneumonia, Acute Primary Typhus
Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal Whooping Cough
Poliomyelitis (Acute) Food Poisoning (or suspected
Puerperal Pyrexia Food Poisoning)
Relapsing Fever Leprosy (specially)
Erysipelas
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