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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham]
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Table of Cases of Infectious Diseases coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1955, in the Borough of Tottenham, classified according to Diseases and Ages
| Disease | Under 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-19 | 20-34 | 35-44 | 45-64 | 65&up | Total | Total cases removed to hospital | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 7 | 7 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 75 | 32 |
| Measles | 31 | 22 | 91 | 67 | 139 | 111 | 102 | 114 | 153 | 155 | 411 | 407 | 11 | 12 | - | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1,837 | 62 |
| Whooping Cough | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 24 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 98 | 6 |
| Pneumonia | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | = | 1 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 13 | 17 | 11 | 84 | - |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | - | 3 | 9 | 4 |
| Pood Poisoning | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | 4 | - | 1 | 23 | 3 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Ehcephalitis Infective | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Post-infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 9 |
| Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 10 | 10 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | 2 | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 4 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 2 | - | 3 | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | - | 5 | 7 | 1 | — | 2 | - | 3 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 1 | 52 | 14 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scabies | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 25 | - |
| Tuberculosis Respiratory | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 1 | - | 2 | 7 | 24 | 32 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 126 | |
| Meninges & C.N.S. | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Other | - | - | - | - | — | 1 | - | = | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | 1 | 16 | |
| TOTAL | 41 | 30 | 106 | 80 | 155 | 124 | 114 | 129 | 170 | 166 | 468 | 466 | 30 | 25 | 9 | 15 | 41 | 51 | 21 | 18 | 41 | 32 | 21 | 20 | 2,373 | 140 |