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 Hounslow]
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Table 2 Infant deaths according to age and cause 1967
Cause of death | Age in Days Under | Age in Months | ||||||||||||||||||||
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1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7-13 | 14-20 | 21-28 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Total | |
Meningococcal infections | - | - | - | - | - | - | .— | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 8 |
Complications of pregnancy, chidbirth and puerperium | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 |
Congenital malformations | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6 |
Birth injuries, post-natal asphyxia and atelectasis | 3 | 2 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8 |
Infections of the newborn | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Other diseases peculiar to early infancy and immaturity unqualified | 15 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 18 |
All other diseases | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -_ | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Total | 27 | 4 | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 48 |
Table 3 Corrected notifications of infectious diseases 1967
Disease | Total | Age in years Under 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-19 | 20-34 | 35-44 | 65 and 45-64 over | Age unknown | Cases admitted to hospital | |
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Dysentery | 16 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 6 |
Encephalitis, acute | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 5 |
Enteric fever typhoid | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | |||||||
para typhoid | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Erysipelas | 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 6 | - | - | 1 |
Food poisoning | 9 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 8 |
Malaria | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
Measles | 1535 | 72 | 191 | 229 | 208 | 210 | 590 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 1 | - | 6 | 31 | |
Meningococcal infection | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
Pneumonia, acute | 9 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 5 |
Puerperal pyrexia | 63 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 13 | 44 | 5 | - | - | 1 | 62 |
Scarlet Fever | 85 | - | 3 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 45 | 11 | 1 | 2 | . | - | 8 | ||
Tuberculosis pulmonary | 81 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 18 | 14 | 19 | 8 | 30 | |
non-pulmonary | 21 | - | -- | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 11 | 4 | 3 | - | 6 | |
Whooping cough | 112 | 15 | 16 | 21 | 14 | 15 | 24 | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 16 |
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