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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

Heston and Isleworth 1955

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]

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Table: TABLE VINFECTIOUS DISEASES-1955-AGE DISTRIBUTION

TABLE V

INFECTIOUS DISEASES-1955-AGE DISTRIBUTION

DiseaseTotalUnder 1 yr.1 yrs.2 yrs.3 yrs.4 yrs.5-9 yrs.10-14 yrs.15-19 yrs.20-34 yrs.35-44 yrs.45-64 yrs.65 yrs.Cases admitted to hospital
Smallpox-------------
Typhoid Fever--------------
Para-Typhoid Fever--------------
Scarlet Fever74-2121245822---13
Diphtheria--------------
Erysipelas17------131751
Puerperal Pyrexia49-------4387--46
Ophthalmia Neonatorum--------------
Acute Encephalitis1--------1---1
Acute Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis13-13112122---12
Meningoccal Infection--------------
Pneumonia50-311181-53101710
Malaria1----------1-1
Dysentery131-3118846174178639
Measles156835106138164199878284933125
Whooping Cough177109122227834161117
Food Poisoning451-3217321556-3
Tuberculosis:-Pulmonary61-2-1123238192
Non-pulmonary61------3l-i-