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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
Southwark 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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Number Re-Tested after 3 months. Found Immune.
Children, 0-5 18 Children, 0-5 18
Children, 5-14 50 Children, 5-14 46
Adults 2 Adults 2
Found Susceptible. Miscellaneous Readings.
Adults 0 Children, 0-5 0
Children, 5-14 3* Children, 5-14 1
Children, 0-5 0 Adults 0
* Re Inoculations after 3 months (still susceptible), 3.
Total Attendances.
Children, 0-5 178
Children, 5-14, 544
Adults 29
F. PORTER SMITH,
Medical Officer conducting Session.
ENTERIC FEVER.
Five cases were notified during the year, one of which died. There
was also a case of Paratyphoid notified, but this was afterwards certified
as Empyema, from which the patient died.
The number of cases notified and the number of deaths during the
last five years were as follows: —
Notified. Deaths.
1925 6
1926 10 3
1927 10 1
1928 2 1
1929 5 1
MEASLES.
As regards Measles, there was a great diminution both in case,
incidence, virulence and mortality.