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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
Bethnal Green 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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TABLE 10
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| DISEASE | NOTIFICATIONS | Total Notified | Corrected Figures | Removed toHospital | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 year | 1-2 years | 3-4 years | 5-14 years | 15-24 years | 25-44 years | 45-64 years | 65 and over | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | - | 6 | 8 | 32 | 3 | 1 | - | - | 50 | 49 | 13 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 8 | 8 | 7 |
| Acute Pneumonia | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 12 | 5 |
| Dysentery | 5 | 9 | 8 | 7 | - | 4 | 1 | 1 | 35 | 35 | 11 |
| Measles | 31 | 185 | 208 | 306 | 2 | - | - | - | 732 | 729 | 33 |
| Whooping Cough | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - |
| Scabies | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 10 | - |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 39 | 39 | - |
| Meninges and C.N.S. | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Other forms | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - |
| TOTALS | 43 | 204 | 231 | 354 | 12 | 27 | 16 | 10 | 897 | 893 | 72 |