[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of].

  • Southwark (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1965?]
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    INFECTIOUS DISEASES COMPARATIVE TABLE OF SOUTHWARK CASES FROM 1954 to 1964 DISEASES 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 Anthrax _ - 1 - - - - - - - Diphtheria - - - - 1 . 3 - - 8 3 Dysentery 163 231 716 37 230 341 686 298 389 415 308 Encephalitis: Infective - - - - - 1 1 1 - - - Post Infectious - - - - 1 - - 1 - - 1 Erysipelas 12 14 10 5 9 7 10 11 4 6 3 Food Poisoning 27 26 9 21 42 27 75 26 23 19 22 Malaria - - - 1 1 - - _ . - 1 Measles 233 2,142 447 1,179 574 1,029 322 1,671 463 911 415 Meningococcal Infection 3 1 1 1 4 2 4 2 4 1 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 14 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 6 1 - Paratyphoid - 2 2 2 - 19 - - - - 1 Pneumonia 54 86 64 70 51 80 40 59 56 89 39 Poliomyelitis: Paralytic 1 41 5 4 1 5 2 1 1 _ _ Non-paralytic - 23 2 7 1 2 4 2 1 - _ Puerperal Pyrexia 76 39 38 49 30 31 16 22 17 5 13 Scabies 20 33 38 35 19 21 37 24 7 4 8 Scarlet Fever 96 185 259 142 157 97 73 79 71 79 93 Typhoid Fever - - - 1 1 - - - - - - Whooping Cough 229 141 144 188 64 66 118 40 16 72 32 Zymotic Enteritis 5 4 5 16 21 5 2 2 2 2 4 (July-Sept. ) TOTALS 933 2,971 1,743 1,759 1,209 1,729 1,395 2,240 1,061 1,611 944 - 14 -