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BUREAU OF PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION
Division of Preventable Diseases.
Nothing of importance occurred in connection with communicable
diseases during the year. The influenza epidemic, which began in September, 1918, ran into the early months of 1919. A small epidemic of
typhoid fever occurred in the Mott Haven District.
Incidence of Communicable Diseases.
Diphtheria..........................
Scarlet fever.-.-..-...................
Measles.........................
Typhoid fever.........................
Para-typhoid................. -
Chicken pox............-- -............
Cerebro spinal meningitis................
Poliomyelitis..........................
W hooping cough.......................
Influenza.............................
Pneumonia............................
Smallpox..........................
Leprosy...............................
1918.
1,868
864
3,935
149
679
20
26
1,068
20,808
2,478
1919.
2,251
718
1,384
109
2
723
34
4
206
3,360
1,118
I.
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Diphtheria-There was an increase of 383 cases of diphtheria reported
over 1918, and 804 over 1917. No reason can be assigned for this. The
cases were scattered over the Borough.
Tuberculosis Clinic Report.
New cases.............................
No. of revisits......................
No. of diagnosed cases..................
Total deaths...........................
1918.
2,121
12,934
621
1,562
1919.
1,809
18,811
393
561
Occupational Clinic.
1918.
Food handlers examined................ 818
Bakers................................. 394
Industrial...................................
Private physicians' cases.......................
In April a venereal disease clinic was opened at the
with the following results:
1919.
1,734
619
18
1,020
Borough office
VENEREAL DISEASE CLINIC.
New cases........................---...................
Revisits- - - - --..............................................
249
648
175
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