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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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| AGE IN YEARS | Scarlet fever | Whooping cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Measles | Ophthalmia neonatorum | Meningococcal infection | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paralytic | Non-paralytic | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||||||||||||
| Under 1 | - | - | 12 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 23 | 25 | 1 | - | 1 | - | ||||||||||||
| 1—2 | 7 | 3 | 33 | 28 | - | - | - | - | 158 | 129 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 3—4 | 15 | 14 | 45 | 49 | - | 1 | - | - | 218 | 180 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 5—9 | 49 | 53 | 42 | 44 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 289 | 285 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 10—14 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 7 | 5 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 15—24 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 7 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| 25 and over | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 6 | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 77 | 80 | 136 | 133 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 708 | 637 | 1 | - | 1 | - | ||||||||||||
| 157 | 269 | 3 | 2 | 1,345 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| AGE IN YEARS | Acute pneumonia | Dysentery | Erysipelas | Typhoid fever | Food poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | Paratyphoid fever | Malaria | ||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||||||||||
| Under 5 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 13 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| 5—14 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 35 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| 15—44 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 46 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | - | 15 | - | - | 1 | - | ||||||||||
| 45—64 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| 65 and ove | 5 | 20 | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||||||
| TOTALS | 35 | 50 | 34 | 98 | 10 | 8 | - | 1 | 7 | 7 | - | 15 | 1 | - | 1 | - | ||||||||||
| 85 | 132 | 18 | 1 | 14 | 15 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||
The infant with opthalmia neonatorum was treated in hospital and the vision was unimpaired.
No case of diphtheria was notified.