Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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Notifications
The following tables show (1) the number of cases of
infectious disease notified during the year 1955, with
comparative figures for the previous seven years; (2) the number
of notifications divided into age groups; and (3) the number of
cases notified in each ward of the borough.
TABLE 1
Notifiable disease | Number of cases notified | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1955 | 1954 | 1953 | 1952 | 1951 | 1950 | 1949 | 19248 | |
Scarlet fever | 50 | 52 | 78 | 108 | 68 | 100 | 114 | 94 |
Diphtheria (including | ||||||||
Membranous Croup) | 2 | - | 2 | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
Enteric fever | 7 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 12 | 7 | 4 |
Puerperal pyrexia | 125 | 96 | 65 | 83 | 22 | 18 | 33 | 25 |
Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal | ||||||||
pneumonia | 105 | 54 | 93 | 71 | 149 | 69 | 121 | 142 |
Dysentery | 99 | 68 | 131 | 31 | 81 | 18 | 33 | 145 |
Erysipelas | 9 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 13 | 17 | 15 | 24 |
Meningococcal infection | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 4 |
Malaria | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | 2 |
Acute poliomyelitis | ||||||||
Paralytic | 10 | 5 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 7 | 47 | 9 |
Non-paralytic | 20 | - | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | ||
Acute encephalitis | 4 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | — | 1 | - |
Tuberculosis (all forms) | 218 | 243 | 256 | 251 | 238 | 278 | 266 | 258 |
Measles | 1425 | 94 | 740 | 839 | 1314 | 696 | 740 | 868 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 7 |
Enteritis | 13 | 20 | 27 | 30 | 25 | 63 | 88 | 64 |
Food poisoning | 53 | 58 | 79 | 20 | 18 | 23 | 33 | 11 |
Scabies | 54 | 42 | 42 | 26 | 34 | 72 | 106 | 141 |
Whooping Cough | 116 | 136 | 485 | 228 | 484 | 316 | 304 | 264 |
Typhus fever | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | - |
TOTALS: | 2322 | 896 | 1846 | 1731 | 2479 | 1716 | 1923 | 2074 |
+ Notifiable only in children under the age of 5.
NOTE: Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded
from above table.