Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 | Dysentery | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Paralytic | Non-Paralytic | |||||||||||
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
Under 1 | . | . | 7 | 4 | 1 | . | . | . | 14 | 12 | . | . |
1 | . | 1 | 4 | 3 | . | . | . | . | 55 | 37 | 6 | . |
2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 5 | . | . | . | 1 | 67 | 56 | . | 2 |
3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 6 | . | . | . | . | 72 | 74 | 1 | . |
4 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 6 | . | . | . | . | 96 | 98 | . | . |
5-9 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 19 | . | . | . | . | 236 | 252 | 1 | 2 |
10-14 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | . | . | . | 13 | 9 | 1 | 2 |
15-24 | . | 1 | . | 2 | 1 | . | . | . | 3 | 4 | . | 2 |
25 and over | . | 1 | . | 1 | . | 4 | . | . | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 |
TOTALS | 35 | 43 | 56 | 50 | 3 | 4 | . | 1 | 559 | 547 | 15 | 10 |
78 | 106 | 7 | 1 | 1,106 | 25 | |||||||
AGE IN YEARS | Acute pneumonia | Typhoid fever | Erysipelas | Food poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | Ophthalmia neonatorum | ||||||
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
Under 5 | 1 | 1 | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . | 1 |
5-14 | 1 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | . | . |
15-44 | 7 | 7 | . | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | . | 10 | . | . |
45-64 | 12 | 5 | . | . | . | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
65 and over | 13 | 8 | . | . | 2 | 2 | . | . | . | . | . | . |
TOTALS | 34 | 23 | . | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | . | 10 | . | 1 |
57 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 1 |
There were no cases of diphtheria
The infant with ophthalmia neonatorum was treated in hospital. There was no impairment of vision.