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 Ruislip]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The following table shows the incidence of infectious diseases
during 1953 and gives comparisons with the previous year.
Disease | Ages of Cases Notified | Total 1953 | Total 1952 | Total Cases Admitted to Hospital | Deaths | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under one year | 1 to 2 | 3 to 4 | 5 to 9 | 10 to 14 | 15 to 24 | 25 and over | Age unknown | |||||||
1953 | 1952 | 1953 | 1952 | |||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | - | 3 | 9 | 56 | 7 | 1 | 3 | - | 79 | 136 | - | 6 | - | - |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | _ | - | - | - | - |
Paratyphoid 'B' Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 4 | - | 5 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 28 | - | 30 | 26 | 1 | - | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 4 | - | - |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | 2 | - | 1 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | 3 | 7 | 12 | 16 | 4 | 14 | 87 | - | 143 | 91 | 20 | 12 | 35 | 27 |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | . | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) | SEE TABLE | |||||||||||||
Tuberculosis (Non-Pulmonary) | ||||||||||||||
Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | 7 | 13 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 6 |
do. (Non-Paralytic) | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | 5 | 7 | 3 | 7 | - | - |
Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - |
do. (Post Infectious) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Measles | 11 | 174 | 262 | 529 | 41 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 1,051 | 621 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 |
Whooping Cough | 35 | 81 | 133 | 249 | 6 | 2 | 6 | - | 512 | 63 | 4 | 1 | - | - |
Food Poisoning | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - |