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 East Ham]
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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTION , DISEASE.
Notified Cases for the 52 weeks ending 1.1.44
DISEASE | Cases Notified in whole District. | Ward Distribution of Cases. | Number of eases Removed to Hospital. | Total Deaths in Borough | ||||||||||||||||||
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At all ages - years. | Manor Park | Little IIford | Woodgrange | Plashet | kensington | Castle | Central | Wall End | Greatfield. | South. | ||||||||||||
At all ages | Under 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | 65 and Up. | |||||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 271 | 1 | 92 | 130 | 27 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 1 | - | 60 | 44 | 20 | 23 | 8 | 13 | 32 | 35 | 11 | 25 | 197 | 1 |
Diphtheria | 53 | 1 | 16 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 7 | - | - | 7 | 13 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 59 | - |
Typhoid Fever | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | - |
Para-Typhoid Fever | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
Erysipelas | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 8 | - |
puerperal Pyrexia | 8 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
Pneumonia | 72 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 8 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 14 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 75 | |
??? Neonatorum | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
???ontory | 6 | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 6 | - |
Meningococcal Meningitis | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 4 | 1 |
Measles | 917 | 21 | 415 | 445 | 20 | 10 | 5 | - | - | - | 120 | 247 | 121 | 74 | 56 | 88 | 56 | 72 | 50 | 33 | 31 | 1 |
Whooping Cough | 241 | 28 | 133 | 72 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 41 | 22 | 30 | 24 | 8 | 24 | 26 | 18 | 29 | 19 | 35 | 1 |
* Notifiable for Duration of War. |