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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
Lambeth 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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| Age Groups | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Measles | Diphtheria | Dysentery | Meningococcal Infection | Puerperal Pyrexia | Totals | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paralytic | Non-para lytic | |||||||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | F | ||
| Under l year | - | - | 24 | 21 | 19 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 88 | |||||||||
| 1 year | 1 | 3 | 23 | 19 | 2 | 37 | 28 | 14 | 16 | 2 | 145 | |||||||
| 2 years | 6 | 2 | 26 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 42 | 46 | 11 | 15 | 178 | |||||||
| 3 years | 4 | 3 | 22 | 14 | 1 | 37 | 44 | 13 | 8 | 146 | ||||||||
| 4 years | 7 | 10 | 23 | 18 | 1 | 32 | 33 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 146 | |||||||
| 5-9 years | 40 | 43 | 61 | 56 | 2 | 1 | 122 | 99 | 44 | 41 | 509 | |||||||
| 10-14 years | 15 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 64 | |||||||
| 15-24 years | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 44 | 86 | |||||||
| 25 and over | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 44 | 41 | 117 | ||||||||
| Total | 79 | 77 | 183 | 162 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 296 | 276 | 1 | 137 | 166 | 2 | 1 | 85 | 1479 | |