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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
Hornsey 1919
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE II.
Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1919.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases notified in each Locality. | Cases removed to Hospital. | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages —Years. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | ||||||||
| Highgate. | Muswell Hill. | Crouch End. | West Hornsey. | East Hornsey | North Haringey. | South Haringey. | Stroud Qreen. | Finsbury Park. | ||||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 25 | 25 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||||||
| Small-pox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cholera, Plague | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous croup) | 87 | – | 17 | 50 | 16 | 4 | – | – | 13 | 6 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 59 |
| Erysipelas | 42 | – | – | 4 | 1 | 12 | 21 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 8 | – | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| Scarlet fever | 203 | 1 | 26 | 151 | 16 | 8 | 1 | – | 13 | 34 | 11 | 25 | 26 | 26 | 30 | 19 | 19 | 134 |
| Typhus fever | –_ | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Enteric fever | 6 | – | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 |
| Continued fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | _ | – | – | |||
| Malaria | 21 | – | – | – | 3 | 17 | 1 | – | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – |
| Dysentery | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – |
| Puerperal fever | 4 | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | – | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 4 | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 |
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Pneumonia | 112 | 6 | 13 | 17 | 9 | 38 | 22 | 7 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 24 | 19 | 16 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| Measles | 224 | 4 | 36 | 145 | 30 | 9 | – | – | 16 | 26 | 9 | 80 | 42 | 16 | 10 | 18 | 7 | – |
| German Measles | 285 | 5 | 29 | 190 | 39 | 22 | – | – | 25 | 33 | 33 | 84 | 44 | 7 | 7 | 38 | 14 | – |
| Polio Encephalitis | 3 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 168 | – | 2 | 14 | 31 | 90 | 30 | 1 | 16 | 18 | 5 | 32 | 35 | 22 | 15 | 15 | 10 | – |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 25 | – | 3 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | – |
| Totals | 1194 | 21 | 130 | 582 | 155 | 214 | 70 | 13 | 122 | 135 | 70 | 284 | 204 | 111 | 73 | 120 | 73 | 207 |
ISOLATION HOSPITAL
Name and
Situation
Hornsey Borough Isolation Hospital,
Coppett's Road, Muswell Hill.
Total available
beds 130
Number of diseases that can
be concurrently treated 3.