[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough.

  • Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Royal Tunbridge Wells Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 (j)—Maternal Mortality. Once again I am pleased to report there were no deaths during 1951 from conditions associated with childbirth. SECTION 2. INFECTIOUS DISEASES. .. 2 (a)—Notifiable Diseases. Nine hundred and thirty-three cases of infectious disease were notified during 1951. The following tables give details of the seasonal and age incidence of, and the mortality from, these notifiable diseases :— 2 (a)—(i) Seasonable Incidence of Notifiable Infectious Diseases, 1951. Disease. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apl. May Jun. July Aug. Sep. Oct. Nov. Dec. Totals] Scarlet Fever ... 2 2 2 2 — 7 2 1 1 2 14 6 41 Diphtheria Pneumonia 11 5 f — —• — — — ? _ 2 1 — 2 21 Puerperal Pyrexia 2 2 1 — — — 1 — 1 — — 1 8 Erysipelas 1 1 2 1 — — 1 1 — — —- — 7 Whooping Cough 46 74 157 54 18 9 13 2 2 1 — —- 376 Measles 18 28 80 85 69 81 73 12 6 — ■ 1 453 Acute Anterior Polio¬ myelitis : Paralytic ... | e r ). 1 1 Non-Paralytic Dysentery — — — — — 13 11 — * — _1- — 25 Food Poisoning V i 1 1 80 112 242 142 87 111 101 16 12 5 15 10 933