Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
DISEASE | Notifications | Removed to Hosp. 1959 | Deaths 1959 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | |||
Diphtheria | - | - | - | 1 | l | 1 | - |
Dysentery | 32 | 35 | 26 | 60 | 79 | 34 | - |
Encephalitis: | |||||||
Acute Infective | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Post Infectious | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Erysipelas | 7 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 2 | - |
Food Poisoning | 56 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 26 | 3 | - |
Malaria | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Measles | 1028 | 243 | 829 | 706 | 344 | 19 | - |
Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 2 | - | l | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum: | |||||||
Hampstead residents | 1 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 10 | - |
Non-residents | - | 3 | 19 | 3 | 14 | 14 | - |
Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | 53 | 54 | 40 | 47 | 12 | 1 | |
Poliomyelitis:Non-Paralytic | 28 | - | 4 | - | 3 | 3 | - |
Paralytic | 9 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Puerperal Pyrexia: | |||||||
Hampstead residents | 22 | 14 | 26 | 30 | 19 | 17 | - |
Non-residents | - | 31 | 59 | 39 | 34 | 34 | - |
Scabies | 26 | 25 | 13 | 13 | 17 | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 23 | 32 | 55 | 51 | 37 | 5 | - |
Typhoid Fever | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | - |
Whooping Cough | 114 | 94 | 109 | 21 | 37 | 13 | - |
TOTAL: | 1409 | 566 | 1235 | 997 | 687 | 176 | 3 |
TUBERCULOSIS
Age Periods | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Cases | Deaths | New Cases | Deaths | |||||
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
5 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
15 | 9 | 10 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - |
25 | 27 | 13 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
45 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
65 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
75 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
TOTAL: | 58 | 35 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | - | 1 |