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Chelsea 1939
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1939
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TABLE No. 40 Cases of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year.
| Cases notified in Chelsea. | Cases notified in each Ward. | Removed to various Hospitals | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | Under 1 Year. | 1—2 Years. | 2—3 Years. | 3-—4 Years. | 4—5 Years. | 5—10 Years. | 10—15 Years. | 15—20 Years. | 20—35 Years. | 35—45 Years. | 45—65 Years. | 65 and Upwards. | Stanley. | Clieyne. | Church. | Hans Town. | Royal Hospital. | ||
| Small-pox | .- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Chicken-pox | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | — | — | 1 | |
| Relapsing fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Diphtheria | 65 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 6 | 9 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 13 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 65 |
| Erysipelas | 15 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 8 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 10 |
| Scarlet Fever | 49 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 43 |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 8 | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 8 |
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | - | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | 2 |
| Poliomyelit | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | - | - |
| Polio-encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Dysentery | 4 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | - | 4 |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | 43 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 3 | - | 1 | - | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 21 | 7 | 10 | - | 5 | 37 |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 2 |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Measles | 16 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | 4 | - | - | - | 7 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Whooping Cough | 74 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 41 | 13 | 19 | - | 1 | 22 |
| Total | 292 | 21 | 31 | 22 | 24 | 25 | 67 | 16 | 16 | 34 | 10 | 26 | 10 | 147 | 51 | 65 | 12 | 17 | 203 |
| Tuberculosis :— Pulmonary | 75 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 7 | 14 | 15 | 25 | 10 | 39 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 3 | |
| Non-Pulmonary | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | |
| Totals (Tuberculosis) | 80 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 26 | 11 | 42 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 5 | |
| Totals | 342 | 22 | 31 | 22 | 24 | 25 | 59 | 19 | 23 | 49 | 25 | 52 | 21 | 189 | 62 | 82 | 17 | 22 | |
| NOTE:- Notification Have Not Been Corrected For any Subsequent Revision of Diagnosis | |||||||||||||||||||