[Report 1967] / School Medical Officer of Health, Blackburn County Borough.

  • Blackburn (England). County Borough Council.
Date:
1967
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Credit: [Report 1967] / School Medical Officer of Health, Blackburn County Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SECTION FOUR INFECTIOUS DISEASES Information as to the incidence of non-notifiable infectious disease is obtained from teachers, welfare officers, public health inspectors, medico- social workers, health visitors and parents. The following table gives particulars of cases of infectious diseases occurring in school children during 1967. Table 10. Period Scarlet Fever Diphtheria Measles Whooping Cough Chicken Pox Mumps Dysentery Primary Pneumonia Acute Poliomyelitis Puerperal Pyrexia Food Poisoning January-April 6 - 68 4 74 38 10 1 - - - May-August - - 14 7 32 13 3 - - - 1 September-December 1 - 2 11 6 6 - - - 1 - Totals 7 - 84 22 112 57 13 1 - 1* 1 *15 year old girl