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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
Bexley 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bexley]
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Fourteen cases of whooping cough were notified
from schools with 110 deaths as compared with 201 cases
and 2 deaths in 1937.
Two cases were admitted to the Isolation Hospital.
Dysentery.
Two cases were notified and there were 110 deaths.
Cerebro-spinal Fever.
Three cases were notified during the year, in each
case after admission to a general hospital. One patient
died, and on investigation the cases were apparently
sporadic. A death of a child from cerebro-spinal fever
in an unnotified case also occurred.
TUBERCULOSIS.
During the vear 91 cases were notified.
Particulars relating to the same, and also to the deaths which occurred during 1938 are contained in the following table:—
| New Cases | Deaths | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age Period | Respiratory | Non Respiratory | Respiratory | Non Respiratory | ||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0— 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| 1— 5 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| 5—10 | – | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – |
| 10—15 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| 15—20 | 4 | 2 | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – |
| 20—25 | 8 | 7 | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – |
| 25—35 | 16 | 8 | – | 2 | 3 | 6 | – | – |
| 35—45 | 4 | 9 | – | – | 3 | 2 | – | – |
| 45—55 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | – | – |
| 55—65 | 6 | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – |
| 65 and upwards | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Totals | 46 | 31 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 1 |