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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
Kensington 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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TABLE 2
| Notifiable disease | Number of Cases Notified in 1959 Age Groups in Years | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 3 to 4 | 5 to 9 | 10 to 14 | 15 to 24 | 25 & over | |
| Scarlet fever | 1 | 6 | 17 | 24 | 5 | - | 1 |
| Diphtheria(including membranous croup) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric fever | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Puerperal pyrexia | 58 | 54 | |||||
| Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 52 |
| Dysentery | 12 | 25 | 7 | 17 | 6 | 13 | 30 |
| Erysipelas | 6 | ||||||
| Meningococcal infection | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Malaria | 1 | ||||||
| Acute poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Non-paralytic | 1 | ||||||
| Acute encephalitis | 1 | ||||||
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | - | 46 | 140 |
| Measles | 28 | 149 | 188 | 311 | 24 | 22 | 15 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 1 | ||||||
| Enteritis | 6 | 1 | |||||
| Food poisoning | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 31 |
| Scabies | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 13 |
| Whooping cough | 17 | 22 | 13 | 28 | 3 | ||
| TOTALS | 76 | 221 | 239 | 386 | 43 | 177 | 347 |
TABLE 3
| Notifiable disease | Total cases notified in each Ward | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St.Charles | Golborne | Norland | Pembridge | Holland | Earls Court | Queens Gate | Redcliffe | Brompton | |
| Scarlet fever | 11 | 7 | 12 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| Diphtheria (including membranous croup) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric fever | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 85 | 4 | - |
| Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia | 10 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| Dysentery | 21 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 16 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | - | - | - |
| Meningococcal infection | 1 | 1 | - | _ | — | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | — | |
| Acute poliomyelitis Paralytic | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | _ |
| Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Acute encephalitis | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 31 | 23 | 22 | 22 | 14 | 28 | 18 | 24 | 12 |
| Measles | 78 | 79 | 99 | 94 | 97 | 106 | 71 | 90 | 23 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | - | - | 1 | _ | - | _ | - | — | - |
| Enteritis | 1 | 5 | _ | 1 | - | _ | — | - | - |
| Food poisoning | 12 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
| Scabies | 9 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 3 | 2 | - | 3 | - |
| Whooping cough | 22 | 25 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 9 | - |