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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
Hendon 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hendon]
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| DISEASE | WARD | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Hill | Burnt Oak | West Hendon | Central | Park | Golders Green | Garden Suburb | Childs Hill | Edgware | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 22 |
| Whooping Cough | 24 | 18 | 18 | — | 23 | 18 | 1 | 11 | 21 | 134 |
| Measles | 374 | 231 | 87 | 91 | 101 | 128 | 173 | 143 | 163 | 1491 |
| Pneumonia | 22 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | — | 19 | 15 | 76 |
| Dysentery | 120 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 45 | 1 | 6 | 124 | 317 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 6 | 9 |
| Food Poisoning | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 2 | 22 | 25 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | 45 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | — | 6 | 5 | 72 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — | — | 1 | - | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 |
| TOTAL | 549 | 317 | 1ll | 109 | 141 | 200 | 176 | 189 | 356 | 2148 |