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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
Lewisham 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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Table 40
| Diseases | 0-1 | 1-5 | 5-/5 | 15-45 | 45-65 | 65 up | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 3 | 2 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 34 | 29 |
| Encephalitis (acute) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Enteric and paratyphoid... | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | - | _ | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 29 |
| Food poisoning | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 71 | 17 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | _ | _ | _ | _ | - | - |
| Measles | 43 | 37 | 547 | 476 | 496 | 470 | 3 | 12 | _ | _ | _ | 1089 | 995 | |
| Meningococcal infection | _ | 1 | 4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum ... | 2 | 1 | _ | _ | _ | __ | _ | _ | _ | _ | - | - | 2 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | / | / | 13 | 5 | 7 | / | 16 | 14 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 62 | 46 |
| Poliomyelitis (acute) | 1 | - | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 10 | - | - | - | - | 18 | 20 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 29 | - | - | - | - | - | 29 |
| Scabies | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | _ | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| Scarlet fever | - | 1 | 56 | 51 | 129 | 111 | 5 | 4 | _ | 1 | 190 | 168 | ||
| Tuberculosis | 1 | 4 | 15 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 132 | 145 | 44 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 212 | 194 |
| Whooping cough | 40 | 38 | 188 | 217 | 135 | 177 | 6 | 11 | - | - | - | 1 | 369 | 444 |
| Totals | 101 | 91 | 858 | 778 | 796 | 802 | 190 | 242 | 67 | 43 | 24 | 22 | .036 | 1978 |