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 1962
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CASES OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE NOTIFIED DURING THE YEAR 1962
NOTIFIABLE DISEASE | NUMBER OF CASES NOTIFIED | TOTALS PER WARD | Non Parishioners | TOTAL | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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At all Ages | At Ages—Year | Saints | Neckinger | Central | Tunnel | Dockyard | Park | Raymouth | South | Thorburn | Willow Walk | South West | Abbey | Leather Market | |||||||||||||
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 over | |||||||||||||||||
Scarlet Fever | 19 | – | 7 | 10 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | – | 3 | 3 | 1 | – | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | 19 |
Whooping Cough | 7 | – | 5 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 3 | 2 | – | – | – | – | — | — | – | 1 | – | 7 |
Measles | 239 | 9 | 105 | 117 | 5 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 12 | 35 | 21 | 12 | 10 | 17 | 29 | 28 | 15 | 36 | 17 | 6 | – | 239 |
Pneumonia | 8 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | 2 | – | – | 1 | 4 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | — | 8 |
Dysentery | 46 | 2 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | – | – | 4 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 11 | – | 46 |
Acute Gastro Enteritis | 307 | 29 | 71 | 33 | 15 | 15 | 17 | 43 | 33 | 21 | 12 | 18 | 6 | 28 | 56 | 92 | 35 | 21 | 25 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 307 | |
Erysipelas | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | — | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
Food Poisoning | 32 | – | 2 | – | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 5 | – | 2 | – | 4 | – | – | 2 | 1 | 2 | – | 32 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 46 | – | – | – | – | 6 | 15 | 19 | 6 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | 4 | 5 | – | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | 20 | 46 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 |
Malaria | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | — | – | – | – | – | 2 |
Scabies | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | — | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 |
Tubercolosis (Pulmonary) | 27 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | – | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | – | 27 |
Totals | 740 | 43 | 204 | 174 | 28 | 33 | 38 | 76 | 60 | 36 | 22 | 26 | 19 | 54 | 111 | 142 | 55 | 42 | 52 | 48 | 42 | 31 | 55 | 35 | 32 | 22 | 740 |