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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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| Disease | Number of Cases Notified | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At ages - years | |||||||||||||
| At all ages | 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 | 49(3) | - | - | 1 | 6 | 9 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 50 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 22 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| Measles | 107 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 21 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 1 | - | - |
| Pneumonia. | 17 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 13 | 3 |
| Ac. Poliomyelitis Paralytic | 3(1) | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| dysentery | 10 | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 4 | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 97 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10 | 73 | 14 | - | - |
| Erysipelas | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| Food Poisoning. | 11 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 6 | 1 | 2 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 4 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Figures in brackets denote number of cases subsequently not
confirmed.