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 Shoreditch]
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING 1959 (confirmed diagnoses).
NOTIFIABLE DISEASE. | Total number of confirmed cases | AGES | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Under 1 year | 1-5 years | 5 - 15 years | 15=25 years | 25-45 years | 45=65 years | 65 years + | Deaths. | ||
Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 56 | 7 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 1 | - |
Acute encephalitis - infective | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
post-infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Enteric (paratyphoid) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
Measles | 445 | 16 | 245 | 182 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
Meningococcal infection | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | 22 | - | l | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 5 | - |
Acute Poliomyelitis - - paralytic | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
- non-paralytic | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
Scabies | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
Scarlet fever | 48 | - | 16 | 30 | 2 | - | - | - | |
Whooping cough | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tuberculosis - - pulmonary | 34 | - | - | 2 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 4 |
- non-pulmonary | 5 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - |
Food Poisoning | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
Total | 621 | 24 | 292 | 228 | 17 | 24 | 19 | 17 | 4 |
The following diseases are notifiable in this Boroughs
Disease | Authority for notification |
---|---|
Acute encephalitis | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.2259 made by Minister of Health, 1949 (l.l.50) |
Acute primary or influenzal pneumonia | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.299 made by Minister of Health, 1953 (l.4.53). |
Acute poliomyelitis | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143/ Reg. No.2259 made by Minister of Health, 1949 (1.1.50). |
Anthrax | Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 192 and 305) |
Cholera | Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 192 and 304) |
Continued fever | Do. |
Diphtheria | Do. |
Dysentery | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Reg.No.299 made by Minister of Health, 1953 (1.4.55). |