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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 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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TABLE F.-INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED. 1936
| DISEASE | High gate | Muswell Bill. | WARDS (see notes on page 43. | AGES | Total | Admitted to Joint Hospital. | Admitted to other Hospitals. | In Nursing Home. | Nursed at Home. | Registered Deaths. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crouch End | West Hornsey | East Hornsey | North Haringey | South Haringey | Stroud Green | Finsbury Park. | 0— 1 | 1— 5 | 5-15 | 15— 25 | 25-45 | 45— 65 | 65 and over | ||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 21 | 40 | 13 | 35 | 9 | 14 | 10 | 13 | 3 | l | 24 | 81 | 29 | 14 | 8 | 1 | 158 | 120 | 12 | 0 | 26 | 1 1 | |
| Diphtheria | 8 | 8 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 9 | 33 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 58 | 53 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Typhoid | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| Para Typhoid | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Pneumonia | 6 | 14 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 58 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 44 | 58 | |
| Erysipeals | 7 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 39 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 17 | ||
| Puerperal Fever | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | 0 | 4 | 0 | - | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 6 | 0 | - | 8 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 | ||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | - | ||
| Polio encephalo. myelitis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cerebro.Spinal Meningitis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dysentery | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 42 | 76 | 25 | 62 | 33 | 28 | 19 | 30 | 26 | 8 | 42 | 124 | 50 | 61 | 38 | 18 | 341 | 191 | 52 | 3 | 95 | |||
| Tuberculosis: Pulmonary | 25 | 22 | 8 | 14 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 52 | 34 | 5 | 124 | ||||||
| NonPulmonary | 5 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 17 | ||||||
| Total, | 72 | 100 | 34 | 80 | 40 | 43 | 27 | 48 | 38 | 9 | 45 | 131 | 81 | 119 | 74 | 23 | 482 | ||||||
| Admitted to Joint Isol. | 24 | 41 | 10 | 43 | 18 | 16 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 191 | |||||||||||||
| Hospital Other Hptls | 12 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 52 | |||||||||||||
| Nursing Homes | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Nursed at Home | 5 | 25 | 10 | 15 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 95 | |||||||||||||
Excluding T.B.
The following 66 cases were treated in the Isolation Hospital in addition to the above :—10 Measles, 5 Measles and Pneumonia, 1 Measles and
Pneumonia and Whooping Cough, 1 Measles and Croup, 1 Measles and Mastoid, 1 Measles and Otitis Media, 3 German Measles, 1 Chicken Pox,
1 Mastoid, 4 Whooping Cough, 4 Whooping Cough and Pneumonia, 1 Whooping Cough and Rheumatism, 1 Rheumatism, 11 Tonsilitis, 1, Pharyngitis.
1 Laryngitis, 2 Quinsy, 1 Influenza, 1 Epilepsy, 3 Colic, 1 Gastritis, 1 Cerebral Aneurysm, 1 Gonorrheal Vaginitis, 1 Local Sepsis, 1 Abscess Axilla,
1 Septicaemia, 1 Removal of Toe Nail, 1 Injured Side, 4 for Observation.