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 shews the Incidence of infectious
diseases during 1955 and gives comparisons with the previous
year.
DISEASE | AGES OF CASES NOTIFIED | TOTAL 1955 | TOTAL 1954 | 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 | |||||||
1955 | 1954 | 1955 | 1954 | |||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | - | 3 | 3 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 2 | - | 41 | 92 | - | 3 | - | - |
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Paratyphoid 'B' Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 4 | - | - |
Dysentery | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | - | - |
Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | 1 | 15 | 25 | 1 | - | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | 4 | 7 | 4 | 6 | - | - |
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - | - |
Pneumonia | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 17 | 1 | 30 | 47 | 8 | 13 | 24 | 20 |
Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) | SEE TABLE | |||||||||||||
Tuberculosis (Non-Pulmonary) | ||||||||||||||
Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - |
Poliomyelitis (Non-Paralytic) | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | - | - |
Acute Encephalitis (Infective) | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | - | 5 | - | 5 | - | - | - |
do. (Post Infectious) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Measles | 19 | 188 | 320 | 785 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 1344 | 27 | 9 | 1 | - | - |
Whooping Cough | 5 | 18 | 22 | 42 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 91 | 68 | 1 | - | - | - |
Food Poisoning | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | - | 13 | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | - |