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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Fulham 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE, 1959 (In age groups)
| -1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25-44 | 45-64 | 65- | Total | |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 6 | 13 | 15 | 7 | — | — | — | — | 41 |
| Whooping Cough | 5 | 18 | 17 | 8 | 1 | —- | — | — | — | 69 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 |
| Non-Paralytic | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Measles | 32 | 245 | 266 | 339 | 13 | 3 | — | — | — | 898 |
| Diphtheria | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Acute Pneumonia | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 15 | 9 | 45 |
| Dysentery | 4 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 70 |
| Smallpox | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Acute Encephalitis Infective | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis Post Infectious | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Typhoid Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paratyphoid Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
| — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | |
| Food Poisoning | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | — | 4 | 1 | 3 | — | 19 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | — | — | 11 | 15 | — | — | 26 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Epidemic Diarrhœa | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Scabies | — | — | — | 3 | — | 3 | 2 | 1 | — | 9 |
| Tuberculosis Pulmonary | — | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 31 | 25 | 7 | 83 |
| Tuberculosis Non-Pulmonary | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 48 | 288 | 317 | 408 | 31 | 43 | 69 | 54 | 23 | 1,281 |
Notifications of Infectious Disease
The incidence of infectious disease was again low and there was no serious
epidemic during the year.
There were 1,281 notifications - an increase of 251 over 1958. Measles accounted
for 898 of the total.
Three cases of poliomyelitis were notified. Two paralytic cases were Fulham
residents one non-paralytic case was a non-resident.
Dysentery has shown a dramatic fall. In 1958. 223 notifications were received
in 1959 only 70
Whooping Cough continues to be a relatively unimportant disease - the nation-wide
vaccination against this disease having effectively reduced the liability to this very
distressing and damaging complaint of infants and young children.