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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

Tottenham 1952

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]

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Table: Table of Cases of Infectious Disease coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1952, in the Borough of Tottenham, classified according to Diseases and Ages

Table of Cases of Infectious Disease coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1952, in the Borough of Tottenham, classified according to Diseases and Ages

Under 112345-910 14151920 3435 4445 6465 & UPTotalTotal cases removed t0 llosp it III
MFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMFMF
Scarlet Fever1136941718281710611732112-2-----356158
Measles2526795795981181021231214264395151333------173990
Whooping Cough9949810811582331-----3-----113913
Pneumonia13123--1-1332-1-55548517118116
Erysipelas--------------1-1-1114-3125
Scabies-------------1-111---1--5-
Food Poisoning------------1---1--123-193
Puerperal Pyrexia---------------1------1-
Meningococcal Infection1----1--1-----1---44
Acute Encephalitis-
Infective-------------------------
Post-Infectious--------1--1------------22
Acute Poliomyelitis -
Paralytic----1------21--1-1--1---75
Non-paralytic----------1----11
Diphtheria-------------------------
Paratyphoid-----------------------33
Dysentery----1------2--1-1-1---1296
Ophthalmia Neon atorum--------------------------
Tuberculosis,--------------------------
Pulmonary-11--2-1-2-323710373612728371163
Tuberculosis,
Other forms------1---112-1-43-2-1-16
TOTAL374088741171151441331571505596001640161753552015401725192547306