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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
Woolwich 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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Table No. 14.
Notification of Infectious Diseases (excluding Tuberculosis), 1949.
| Diseases. | Number of Cases (after correction of diagnosis) Age Groups. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year. | 1 and under 3 years. | 3 and under 5 years. | 5 and under 10 years. | 10 and under 15 years. | 15 and under 20 years. | 20 and under 35 years. | 35 and under 45 years. | 45 and under 65 years. | 65 and over. | Total | Total No. admitted to Hosp. | |
| Diphtheria | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 8 | 8 |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 30 | 41 | 109 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | 203 | 72 |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Cerebrospinal Fever | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 10 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | 5 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | 25 | 25 |
| Acute Polioencephalitis | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 3 | 26 | 9 |
| Dysentery | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 20 | 10 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 40 | 39 |
| Acute Pneumonia | 11 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 12 | 21 | 27 | 33 | 135 | 44 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | 1 | - | - | 15 | 12 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 5 |
| Whooping Cough | 17 | 63 | 83 | 93 | 2 | - | 8 | - | - | - | 266 | 28 |
| Measles | 52 | 330 | 354 | 563 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1314 | 94 |
| Scabies | - | 2 | - | 9 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 3 | - | 30 | - |