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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
Penge 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]
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Notifiable Diseases (other than Tuberculosis) during the Year 1951.
| Cases Notified at ages—years | Cases admitted to Isolation Hospitals | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and upwds | ||
| Scarlet fever | 43 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 29 |
| Dysentery | 5 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | - | — | — | - | - | 4 | 4 |
| Pneumonia | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | — | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - |
| Erysipelas | 7 | — | — | — | — | -— | — | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | — | - | - |
| Measles | 468 | 26 | 94 | 67 | 110 | 97 | 64 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | — | - | 4 |
| Whooping Cough | 107 | 13 | 27 | 23 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | - | 4 |
| Totals | 640 | 41 | 124 | 92 | 132 | 118 | 99 | 8 | 4 | 6 . | 7 | 2 | 7 | 41 |
| Deaths of notified cases:—1 Pneumonia, aged 82 years. Whooping Cough 1, aged l½ years | ||||||||||||||
| Rate per 1,000 Home Population | Annual Death Rate per 1,000 Home Population | Rate per 1,000 Live Births | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live Births | Still Births | All Causes | Typhoid Fever | Small-pox | Acute Poliomyelitis & Polioencephalitis | Tuberculosis | Whooping Cough | Diphtheria | Influenza | Pneumonia | Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under two years) | Total Deaths under one year | |
| Penge U.D. | 20.2 | 0.61 | 10.5 | - | — | — | 0.39 | 0.03 | — | 0.27 | 0.55 | - | 24.5 |
| England and Wales | 15.5 | 0.36 | 12.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.31 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.38 | 0.61 | 1.4 | 29.6 |
| 126 County Boroughs and Great Towns including London | 17.3 | 0.45 | 13,4 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.37 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.36 | 0.65 | 1,6 | 33.9 |
| 148 Smaller Towns (Resident Populations, 25,000 to 50,000 at Census 1931) | 16.7 | 0.38 | 12.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.31 | 0.01 | .. 0.00 | 0.38 | 0.63 | 1.0 | 27.6 |
| London Administrative County | 17.8 | 0.37 | 13.1 | — | - | 0.00 | 0.38 | . 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.23 | 0.61 | 0.7 | 26.4 |
| A (—) signifies that there were no deaths. | |||||||||||||