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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

Orpington 1953

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Orpington]

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Table: A total of ten thousand, eight hundred and eighty children under the age of fifteen years had completed a course of immunisation at the 31st December, 1953, out of a total of fifteen thousand, two hundred and forty-six children—i.e., 71 per cent.

A total of ten thousand, eight hundred and eighty children under the age of fifteen years had completed a course of immunisation at the 31st December, 1953, out of a total of fifteen thousand, two hundred and forty-six children—i.e., 71 per cent.

Year of Birth.Last complete course of injections (whether primary or booster) 1949—1953.1948 or earlierPopulation 1951 Census
1939422384830
1940282475872
1941259510918
1942326265932
1943445241785
1944538233815
19454443961,030
19466222391,080
19477902111,108
1948851—1,066
1949734—1,382
1950802—1,270
1951708—1,129
1952631—1,073
195372—956
Total7,9262,95415,246

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Typhoid Fever.
No cases were notified during 1953.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Forty-eight cases were notified. Forty-seven were institutionally
treated and one home nursed. This represents an attack rate of 50.8
per 1,000 total births.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
One case was notified. This was treated in hospital and made a
satisfactory recovery. There was no impairment of vision.
Pemphigus Neonatorum.
No cases were notified during the year.
Measles.
Seven hundred and sixty-one cases were notified, giving an attack
rate of 11.8 per 1,000 population. This figure showed a slight decrease
compared with that for 1952 (786 cases).
Nineteen of these cases were removed to hospital and the
remainder home nursed.
There was one death from this disease.
Whooping Cough.
Three hundred and fifty-two notifications of this disease were
received during the year, representing an attack rate of 5.5 per 1,000
population. Three cases were admitted to hospital and the remainder
home nursed. This figure also showed a slight decrease on the 386
cases notified during 1952.