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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
Brentford and Chiswick 1954
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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TABLE VI
AGES OF CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1994
| Disease | Number of Cases Notified | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At ages - years | ||||||||||||
| Under 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 65 | Over 65 | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 95 | - | - | 5 | 8 | 10 | 66 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 47 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 18† | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 1 | - | 6 | 6 |
| Ac. Poliomyelitis:-Paralytic | 4† | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - |
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | » |
| Dysentery | 12† | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | |
| Erysipelas | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Food Poisoning | 4 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Typhoid | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | |
| † Includes one case subsequently not confirmed. | |||||||||||||
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