[Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunstable Borough.
- Dunstable (England). Borough Council.
- Date:
- 1955
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1955] / Medical Officer of Health, Dunstable Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES i nfec11ous Diseases, other than Tuberculosis General Statistics, The following table shows the number of causes of Infectious Diseases notified during 1^55 together vjith the number admitted to hospital, and the deaths from these diseases s- D I seases Total Gases Notified Gases ■ Admitted to Hospital Total Deaths Reg Istered Scarlet Fever • « 8 Whooping Cough 18 — Acute Poliomyelitis t Paraiytic « # 1 1 Non-Paralytic « » — r.'ieasles (excluding rubella) —1 — Diphtheria • p - — Ac. Pneumonia 0 « 2 11 Dysentery ,, • » 1 Smallpox • • Acute Encephalitis ; Infec tive • # ** Post-Infectious Enteric or Typhoid Fever • ♦ Paratyphoid fevers • # — ErysIpelas., • • 1 1 _ !,len i ngococcal infection • # Food PoI soning .. * « r O Puerperal Pyrexla « C Ophthalmia neonatorum « • - - The following table gives an analysis of the more important causes of Infectious Diseases notified, according to age s- j Under Disease j 1 ! year 1 ’to 2 3 to 5 to r 10 to 14 15 to 24 25 and over Age Unknown Total Scarlet Fever . . ( .\c. Poll omye 1 i t i ss ! f 1 1 - - 8 Paralytic 1 - 1 1 347 I/leas les . . „ , j ^ 50|iaL|]Bo 4 1 1 1 No cases of Smallpox were notified during the year](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29172639_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
