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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hornsey, Borough of]
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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY AGE AND SEX
| AGE IN YEARS | Scarlet fever | Whooping cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | Measles | Ophthalmia neonatorum | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paralytic | Non-paralytic | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||||||||||||
| Under 1 | . | . | 16 | 14 | . | . | . | . | 22 | 9 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 1—2 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 38 | . | . | . | . | 109 | 122 | . | . | |||||||||||
| 3—4 | 18 | 10 | 50 | 46 | 1 | 1 | . | . | 172 | 174 | . | . | |||||||||||
| 5—9 | 48 | 30 | 71 | 68 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 285 | 237 | . | . | |||||||||||
| 10—14 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | . | 12 | 3 | . | . | ||||||||||||
| 15—24 | . | . | 1 | . | 1 | . | . | . | 2 | 7 | . | . | |||||||||||
| 25 and over | 1 | 2 | . | 2 | 1 | 2 | . | 1 | 1 | 5 | . | . | |||||||||||
| TOTALS | 77 | 53 | 160 | 172 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 603 | 557 | 2 | 1 | |||||||||||
| 130 | 332 | 10 | 5 | 1,160 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
| AGE IN YEARS | Acute pneumonia | Dysentery | Erysipelas | Typhoid fever | Food poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | Paratyphoid fevers | ||||||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||||||||||
| Under 5 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 13 | . | . | . | . | 1 | 2 | . | . | 2 | . | |||||||||
| 5—14 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 27 | 1 | . | . | . | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | |||||||||
| 15—44 | 8 | 16 | 7 | 20 | . | 1 | 1 | . | 2 | 1 | . | 18 | . | . | |||||||||
| 45—64 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | . | . | 3 | 1 | . | . | . | . | |||||||||
| 65 and over | 8 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | |||||||||
| TOTALS | 38 | 51 | 54 | 66 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 5 | . | 18 | 2 | . | ||||||||||
| 89 | 120 | 12 | 1 | 12 | 18 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
There were no cases of diphtheria.
Two of the three infants with ophthalmia neonatorum were treated in hospital and the other was treated at home. There was no impairment of vision.