[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney].
- Hackney (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
- Date:
- [1945?]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hackney]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![37 PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES. During the year under review 2,467 cases of notifiable infectious diseases occurred as compared with 3,605 in the previous year. The following table shows the incidence of the various diseases and it will be seen that 1944 was not ' 'a measles year.'' It should also be noted that scabies became compulsorily notifiable on 1st August, 1943:— Disease. 1943 ] Acute Influenzal Pneumonia 13 5 Acute Primary Pneumonia 108 73 Cerebro-spinal Fever 10 7 Diphtheria 94 60 Dysentery 24 82 Encephalitis Lethargica - 1 Enteric Fever 1 2 Erysipelas 51 43 Malaria 1 10 Measles 1,781 296 Ophthalmia Neonatorum 17 18 Puerperal Fever 12 9 Puerperal Pyrexia 46 54 Scabies 518 1,032 Scarlet Fever 683 236 Whooping Cough 246 539 3,605 2,467 The attack rates for the principal infectious diseases in England and Wales, London and Hackney were as follows:— Disease. England and Wales. London. Hackney. Cerebro-spinal Fever 0.05 0.06 0.05 Diphtheria 0.58 0.31 0.44 Enteric Fever 0.01 0.01 0.01 Erysipelas 0.29 0.37 0.31 Measles 4.16 2.98 2.18 Pneumonia 0.97 0.93 0.57 Scarlet Fever 2.40 1.57 1.74 Whooping Cough 2.49 2.90 3.97](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19885672_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
