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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
Feltham 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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Notifiable Diseases other than Tuberculosis
| Disease | Total Nos. Notified | Admitted to Hospital | Deaths | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diphtheria | — | — | — | |||||
| Measles | 392 | 11 | — | |||||
| Whooping Cough | 48 | 6 | — | |||||
| Pneumonia ... | 15 | 1 | 26 | |||||
| Scarlet Fever | 26 | 11 | — | |||||
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | — | — | — | |||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | |||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | — | — | |||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | — | — | |||||
| Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | 1 | 1 | — | |||||
| „ (Non-paralytic) | — | — | — | |||||
| Polioencephalitis | — | — | — | |||||
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 1 | 1 | — | |||||
| Malaria | — | — | — | |||||
| Dysentery | 9 | 1 | — | |||||
| Food Poisoning | 4 | — | — | |||||
| Age Periods | Ophthalmia Neona torum | Scarlet Fever | Diphtheria | Measles | Whooping Cough | Cerebrc Spinal Fever | Acute Poliomyelitis | |
| 'paralytic | NonParalytic | |||||||
| Under 1 yr. | — | — | — | 18 | 8 | — | — | — |
| 1—2 yrs. | — | — | — | 87 | 12 | — | — | — |
| 3—4 yrs. | — | 5 | — | 119 | 10 | — | — | — |
| 5—9 yrs. | — | 19 | — | 152 | 17 | — | — | — |
| 10—14 yrs. | — | 1 | — | 11 | 1 | — | — | — |
| 15—24 yrs. | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | 1 | — |
| 25 and over | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — |
| Age unknown | — | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | — | 26 | — | 392 | 48 | — | 1 | — |
| Age Periods | Malaria | Dysentery | - Encepalitis | Food Poisoning | Puerperal pyrexia | Erysipelas | Pneumonia | |
| Under 5 years | — | 5 | —. | 2 | — | — | I | |
| 5—14 yrs. | — | 4 | — | 1 | — | — | 2 | |
| 15—44 yrs. | — | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | 5 | |
| 45—64 yrs. | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | |
| 65 and over | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | |
| Age unknown | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Total | — | 9 | — | 4 | — | 1 | 15 | |