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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
Willesden 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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TABLE II.—CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1917.
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | ||||||||||||||||||
| At Ages—Years. | South Kilburn. | Mid-Kilburn. | North Kilburn. | Brondesbury Park. | Kensal Rise. | Harlesden. | Stonebridge. | Round wood. | Church End. | Willesden Green. | Cricklewood. | Total Cases removed to Hospital. | ||||||||
| Under i. | 1 and under 5. | 5 and under 15. | 15 and under 25. | 25 and under 45. | 45 and under 65. | 65 and upwards. | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | 4) | (5> | (6) | (7) | (8) | (0) | (10) | (n) | (12) | (n) | <14) | (1=) | (16) | <t7> | (18) | (19) | (,20) | 21) |
| Small-pox | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Cholera (C) Plague (P) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous croup) | 254 | 4 | 46 | 167 | 25 | 12 | 23 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 20 | 24 | 29 | 18 | 25 | 71 | 11 | 234 | ||
| Erysipelas | 56 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 166 | 27 | hi | 20 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 16 | 18 | 13 | 25 | 10 | n | 29 | m1 | |||
| Typhus Fever | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 8 | |||||||||||
| Relapsing Fever (R) Continued Fever (C) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Cerebro-spinal Meningitis | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | i | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| Poliomyelitis | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 29 | 29 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||||||||
| Measles and German Measles | 3i«4 | 90 | 1045 | 1856 | 294 | 128 | 9 | 2 | 491 | 469 | 312 | 176 | 298 | 367 | 308 | 30' | 254 | 221 | 227 | 12 |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 302 | 1 | 8 | 33 | 81 | 140 | 36 | 3 | 4i | 32 | 18 | 14 | 30 | 24 | 23 | 32 | 28 | 35 | 25 | 0 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 64 | 2 | 15 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| Whooping Cough | 238 | *7 | 116 | 102 | 3 | 18 | 54 | 28 | 3 | 12 | 34 | 11 | 28 | 41 | 7 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Totals | 4^9 | 148 | 1260 | 2305 | 448 | 317 | 68 | t3 | 509 | 602 | 380 | 217 | *85 | 485 | 404 | 4*0 | 380 | 3S9 | 30q | 399 |
The Willesden Municipal Hospital, Neasden, with 166 beds is provided by the Willesden District Council for patients suffering with infectious
diseases other than Small Pox.
Cases of Infectious Disease occurring amongst soldiers or sailors are not included in this table.