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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Feltham]
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Notifiable Diseases other than Tuberculosis.
| Disease | Corrected Admitted to | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notifications | Hospital | Deaths | ||||
| Diphtheria | — | — | — | |||
| Measles | 1023 | 13 | — | |||
| Whooping Cough | 46 | 3 | — | |||
| Ac. Pneumonia | 11 | 2 | 19 | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 23 | 3 | — | |||
| Ac. Encephalitis | — | — | — | |||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | — | — | |||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | — | — | |||
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | |||
| Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | 4 | 4 | — | |||
| „ (Non-paralytic) | 3 | 3 | — | |||
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | — | — | — | |||
| Paratyphoid fevers | — | — | — | |||
| Malaria | — | — | — | |||
| Dysentery | 9 | 2 | — | |||
| Food Poisoning | 14 | 3 | — | |||
| Meningococcal infection | — | — | — | |||
| Smallpox | — | — | — | |||
| Age Periods | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Scarlet Fever | Measles | Whoop ing Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis | |
| Paralytic | non-Paralytic | |||||
| Under 1 yr. | 1 | — | 23 | 6 | — | — |
| 1—2 yrs. | — | I | 180 | 9 | 1 | — |
| 3—4 yrs. | — | 7 | 290 | 14 | 1 | — |
| 5—9 yrs. | — | 15 | 514 | 16 | 1 | 1 |
| 10—14 yrs. | — | — | 9 | 1 | — | 2 |
| 15—24 yrs. | — | — | 7 | — | — | — |
| 25 and over | — | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| Age unknown | ||||||
| Total | 1 | 23 | 1023 | 46 | 4 | 3 |
| Age Periods | Dysentery | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Pneumonia | ||
| Under 5 yrs. | 2 | 3 | — | 3 | ||
| 5—14 yrs. | 1 | 4 | — | 1 | ||
| 15—44 yrs. | 5 | 6 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 45—64 yrs. | 1 | 1 | — | 2 | ||
| 65 and over | — | — | — | 1 | ||
| Age unknown | — | — | — | — | ||
| Total | 9 | 14 | 1 | 11 | ||