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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
Bermondsey 1958
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1958
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1958
| 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 | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tuberculosis— | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Respiratory System | 51 | – | 2 | – | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 8 | – | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 | – | 2 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 51 | – |
| Other forms | 9 | – | 1 | 1 | 4 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 5 | 9 | – |
| Scarlet Fever | 52 | – | 19 | 30 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 4 | – | 3 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 52 | – |
| Whooping Cough | 32 | 4 | 19 | 8 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 3 | – | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 32 | – |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | — | 2 | – |
| Measles | 268 | 15 | 146 | 104 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 12 | 9 | 14 | 45 | 20 | 6 | 17 | 18 | 44 | 16 | 17 | 29 | 21 | 268 | – |
| Pneumonia | 47 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | – | 10 | 10 | 8 | — | 1 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 47 | 3 |
| Dysentery | 183 | 7 | 47 | 52 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 5 | – | 1 | 16 | 20 | 57 | 25 | 6 | 23 | 5 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 183 | – |
| Erysipelas | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | – |
| Food Poisoning | 33 | 1 | 4 | 5 | – | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | – | – | 4 | 8 | 10 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 4 | – | – | 5 | – | 33 | – |
| Scabies | 11 | – | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | — | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 11 | – |
| Totals | 691 | 32 | 243 | 204 | 30 | 14 | 18 | 37 | 19 | 40 | 29 | 25 | – | 27 | 39 | 54 | 151 | 55 | 22 | 58 | 26 | 65 | 41 | 41 | 64 | 45 | 691 | 3 |