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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Deptford Borough]
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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 | |||
| Scarlet Fever. | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 24 | 17 | 1 | 59 | ||||||||||
| Erysipelas. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 12 | ||||||
| Dysentery. | 3 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 15 | 19 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 116 | ||||
| Acute * Pneumonia. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 72 | 57* | ||
| Measles. | 3 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 26 | 23 | 32 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 122 | |||||||
| Whooping Cough. | 9 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 57 | |||||||||
| Scabies. | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 2 | 4 | |||||||||
| Zymotic Enteritis. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Food Poisoning. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | . | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia. | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Totals. | 17 | 6 | 20 | 14 | 63 | 49 | 97 | 79 | 10 | 7 | 18 | 17 | 18 | 22 | 6 | 5 | 448 | 57 |
General.
The total number of notifiable infectious diseases showed a decrease of 602,
but this is largely accounted for by the drop in Measles as only 122 cases were
notified as against 819 in 1957.
Sonne Dysentery was again troublesome during the year, and entailed many
visits by Public Health Inspectors, and examinations of several hundred specimens
of faeces by the Public Health Laboratory Service.
There was no significant alteration in the numbers of other Infectious
Diseases as compared with the previous year.
No cases of anthrax, cerebro-spinal meningitis, diphtheria, meningococcal infection,
poliomyelitis, smallpox, or typhoid fever were notified during the year.
* Includes all forms of pneumonia.
TUBERCULOSIS.
All new cases in the Borough, whether or not they are transferred from
other areas, are visited by the Public Health Inspectors in order to ascertain
the housing conditions and to see if any improvements can, or should, be effected.
There was a decrease of 43 in the number of cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
notified for the first time (33 male and 10 female) and the number of deaths due to
respiratory tuberculosis in Deptford in 1958 was again down as compared with the
previous year, i.e., 8 males and 2 females as compared with 10 and 2 respectively.
Of the deaths from respiratory tuberculosis 4 of the male deaths and both female
deaths were of persons between the ages of 15 and 65 years, whereas of the deaths
from all causes, only about 28% were within this age group.
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