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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 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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| DISEASE | WARDS | AGES | Total | Admitted to Joint Hospital | Admitted to other Hospitals. | In Nursing Home. | Nursed at Home. | Registered Deaths | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Highgate | Muswell Hill. | Crouch End | Central Hornsey | North Haringey | South Haringey | Stroud Green | Finsbury Park. | 0— 1 | l— 5 | 5— 15 | 15— 25 | 25— 45 | 45— 65 | 65 and over | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 15 | 20 | 6 | 40 | 13 | 11 | 20 | 17 | 0 | 28 | 80 | 23 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 142 | 120 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 0 |
| Diphtheria ... | 12 | 33 | 17 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 30 | 62 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 116 | 110 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Typhoid Fever | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Para Typhoid | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Pneumonia | 5 | 8 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 50 | 3 | 16 | 1 | 30 | 63 |
| Erysipelas ... | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 21 | 11 | 48 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 30 | 0 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Pemphigus Neonatorum | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Cerebrospinal Meningitis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dysentery | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Malaria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 45 | 77 | 31 | 82 | 39 | 25 | 61 | 37 | 8 | 65 | 148 | 63 | 57 | 36 | 20 | 397 | 249 | 57 | 3 | 88 | ||
| Tuberculosis : Pulmonary | 18 | 23 | 5 | 26 | 17 | 10 | 17 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 38 | 61 | 20 | 4 | 127 | 37 | ||||
| Non-Pulmonarv | 3 | 5 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 30 | 14 | ||||
| Total ... | 66 | 105 | 37 | 118 | 59 | 35 | 84 | 50 | 9 | 71 | 157 | 107 | 122 | 61 | 27 | 554 | |||||
| Admitted to Joint Isol. | 26 | 50 | 24 | 53 | 19 | 15 | 37 | 25 | |||||||||||||
| Hospital Other if ptIs | 9 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 8 | |||||||||||||
| Nursing Homes | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||||||
| Nursed at Home | 10 | 18 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 4 | |||||||||||||
The following 79 cases were treated in the Isolation Hospital in addition to the above:—i Whooping Cough and Pneumonia, 2 Whooping Cough,
1 Measles and Whooping Cough, 20 Measles, 2 Measles and Pneumonia, 1 Measles and Mastoid, 2 German Measles, 1 Measles and Middle Ear
Trouble, l Measles and Gastro-enteritis, l ? Dystentery, 1 ? Intestinal Colic, 2 Bilious attack, 1 Colitis, 11 Tonsillitis, 1 Bronchitis and Laryngeal
Spasm, 1 Faucial Ulceration, 1 Septic Arm, 1 Hordeola of Eyelids, 3 Toxic rash, 1 Furunculosis of right upper lid, 1 Impetigo Contagiosa, 1 Septic
Toe, 2 Chicken Pox, 1 Chicken Pox and Otitis Media, 10 Influenza, 1 Pyelitis, 1 Observation, 1 Eruption of third lower molar teeth, 1 Teno-synovitis,
1 Menorrhagia, 1 Gastric Ulcer.