Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1957
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1957
| NOTIFIABLE DISEASE | NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED | Whole Borough | Saints | Neckinger | Central | Tunnel | Dockyard | Park | Raymouth | South | Thorburn | Willow Walk | South West | Abbey | Leather Market | TOTAL | Total Cases removed to Hospital | |||||||||||
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| At all Ages | At Ages—Year | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 and upwards | ||||||||||||||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 69 | 1 | 28 | 35 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 5 | – | 2 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 69 | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 113 | 8 | 52 | 48 | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 4 | 6 | 29 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 19 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 113 | 12 |
| Measles | 1099 | 52 | 631 | 391 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 47 | 69 | 111 | 178 | 110 | 81 | 59 | 94 | 100 | 57 | 68 | 44 | 81 | 1099 | 11 |
| Dysentery | 7 | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 7 | 3 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 3 | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | — | — | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | — | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 3 | – |
| Pneumonia (Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal) | 32 | | 1 | 3 | | 1 | | 5 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | — | 2 | 2 | – | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 32 | 1 |
| Enteric or Typhoid Fever | 1 | | 1 | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Paratyphoid Fevers | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 3 | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | 7 | – | 3 | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 7 | 2 |
| Tuberculosis— | 76 | 1 | 4 | – | 2 | 9 | 7 | 19 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 9 | – | 5 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 12 | 8 | 76 | – |
| Respiratory System Other forms of Tuberculosis | Nil | | | | | | | | | | | | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | Nil | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 2 | | | | | | 1 | 1 | | | | | | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | | – | | 1 | – | – | 2 | |
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| Scabies | 7 | | | 1 | 3 | 3 | | | | | | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 5 | | – | – | 1 | – | – | 7 | | |
| Totals | 1420 | 62 | 721 | 480 | 32 | 19 | 16 | 28 | 14 | 10 | 15 | 23 | 1 | 59 | 83 | 131 | 243 | 134 | 90 | 86 | 115 | 126 | 78 | 90 | 73 | 111 | 1420 | 33 |