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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
Deptford 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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1950
Infectious Diseases. Corrected Notifications.
| 0-1 years | 1-2 years | 2-5 years | 5-15 years | 15-25 years | 25-45 years | 45-65 years | over 65 years | Total | Deaths | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever ... | 1 | 7 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 17 | 32 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 90 | |||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 11 | ||||||||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis and Polio Encephalitis | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | |||||||||
| Dysentery | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | L | |||||||||||||
| Acute Pneumonia | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 44 | 51* | |
| Measles | 21 | 12 | 44 | 41 | 206 | 236 | 167 | 157 | 1 | 885 | ||||||||
| Whooping Cough | 12 | 9 | 16 | 13 | 57 | 67 | 41 | 58 | 5 | 1 | 279 | 3 | ||||||
| Scabies | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Zymotic Enteritis | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 | ||||||||||||||
| Malaria | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 27 | |||||||
| TOTALS | 41 | 26 | 71 | 64 | 281 | 321 | 229 | 257 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 1372 | |
No cases of smallpox, ophthalmia neonatorium, anthrax, typhoid fever, or cerebro-spinal
meningitis.
Includes deaths from all forms of pneumonia.
Tuberculosis remains the notifiable disease which causes the greatest
number of deaths and one of the most important of all diseases in this
country from an economic point of view. In many cases it is a chronic
disease and even if it does not kill it may cause a very prolonged absence
from work and more or less permanent disability. Moreover it commonly
attacks young adults when they have just started to be an economic asset
to the community.
The deaths due to respiratory tuberculosis in Deptford in 1950 were
19 males and 7 females as compared with 35 and 5 respectively during the
previous year. The large excess of males is largely due to the presence of
Carrington House, a common lodging house for men with upwards of
800 beds, situated within the Borough. Of the 19 male deaths, 10 were of
persons residing at this lodging house. Of the deaths from respiratory
tuberculosis 15 of the 19 male deaths and all the female deaths were in
persons between the ages of 15 and 65 years, whereas of the deaths from
all causes, only about 31% were within this age group.