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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 1956
[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 1956 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 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 80 | 24 | ||||||||||
| Measl es | 3 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 11 | 28 | 40 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 158 | 6 | |||||||
| Whooping Cough | 19 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 44 | 66 | 2 | 7 | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 243 | 29 | ||||||
| Pneumonia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 70 | 17 | ||||
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 10 | |||||
| Food Poisoning | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 30 | 2 | |||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Acute Encephalitis Infective | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post-infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis Paralytic | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| Non-paralytic | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | 4 | 2 | 15 | 13 | ||||||||||||
| Meningococcal Infection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria | - | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Typhoid | - | -- | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Paratyphoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | = | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Dysentery | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | 3 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 63 | 10 |
| Scabies | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 14 | |||||||||||
| Tuberculosis | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Respiratory | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 7 | 18 | 6 | 9 | 4 | 92 | ||||
| Meninges & C.N. S. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | = | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||||||
| Other | -- | - | ยป | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 9 | - | |||||
| Total | 27 | 17 | 19 | 22 | 25 | 30 | 25 | 43 | 45 | 42 | 114 | 149 | 18 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 21 | 31 | 18 | 16 | 39 | 32 | 23 | 20 | 812 | 131 |