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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
Hampstead 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| Disease | NOTIFICATIONS | Removed to Hosp. 1954 | Deaths 1954 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | |||
| Acute Encephalitis-Post Infectious | 1 | 2 | 1 | l | 1 | 1 | — |
| Diphtheria | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 16 | 72 | 15 | 40 | 73 | 24 | — |
| Enteric Fever | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Erysipelas | 21 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 4 | — |
| Food Poisoning | 42 | 23 | 6 | 21 | 19 | 9 | — |
| Malaria | — | — | — | 1 | 2 | 2 | — |
| Measles | 588 | 1187 | 561 | 1186 | 36 | 4 | — |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | — |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | — | — |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 5 | 3 | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| Pneumonia | 44 | 74 | 37 | 53 | 47 | 19 | 6 |
| Poliomyelitis Non-Paralytic | 14 | — | 4 | 2 | — | — | — |
| Paralytic | 2 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 2 | — | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 7 | 28 | 45 | 34 | 4l | 41 | — |
| Scabies | 24 | 16 | 17 | 24 | 23 | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 77 | 70 | 112 | 44 | 50 | 16 | — |
| Whooping Cough | 189 | 289 | 193 | 215 | 169 | 14 | — |
| Total | 1032 | 1782 | 1014 | 1646 | 480 | 139 | 6 |
No deaths occurred from any of the notifiable diseases
with the exception of pneumonia, where we had six deaths. Four
deaths of persons aged 70 and over and one death of a female aged
were from lobar pneumonia. The sixth death was of a person
aged 74 who died from acute influenzal pneumonia.
The number of notifications of infectious disease was
the lowest in any of the post war years. The exceptionally low
figure was largely accounted for by the almost complete absence
of measles from the borough. Measles epidemics tend to occur
every two years, but even in a non-epidemic year there are