London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
Wood Green 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wood Green]
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| Notifiable Disease | Cases Notified in Whole Borough | Total Cases Notified in each Ward | Total Cases removed to Hospital or Sanatorium | Total Deaths | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages - Years | |||||||||||||||||
| All Ages | Under 1 year | 1 to 5 years | 5 to 10 years | 10 to 15 years | 15 to 20 years | 20 to 25 years | 25 to 35 years | 35 to 45 years | 45 to 55 years | 55 to 65 years | 65 and upwards | Alexandra Bowes | Town Hall | Noel Park | |||
| Scarlet Pever | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | - | ||||||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | " | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Pever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric or Typhoid Pever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Para-typhoid Pever | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 46 | 1 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 6 | 17 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 23 | 33 | ||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 7 | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pulm. Tuberculosis | 42 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 13 | 1 | |||||
| Non-Pulm. Tuberculosis | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | 2 | - | |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 169 | 6 | 92 | 65 | - | - | - | - | 48 | 6 | - | ||||||
| Whooping Cough | 1 | 9 | 5 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 14 | - | 4 | - | ||
| Opthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 35 | 1 | 9 | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | 5 | - | 1 | - | 17 | 7 | 3 | - | ||
| Pood Poisoning | 9 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 3 | |||
| Totals | 360 | 117 | 112 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 19 | 119 | 131 | 35 | |||||||