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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
Fulham 1942
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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TABLE 2. INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING 1942
| Notifiable Diseases | Number of cases notified | 1 | Total cases removed to | Hospital Deaths | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Ages – Years | 3 | ||||||||||||||
| At all ages | 0- | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 35- | 45- | 65 | |||
| Smallpox | – | ||||||||||||||
| Cholera, Plague | – | ||||||||||||||
| Diphtheria | 55 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 55 | 3 | ||
| Erysipelas | 24 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 13 | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 208 | 3 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 19 | 71 | 20 | 42 | 13 | 2 | 201 | |||
| Typhus Fever | – | ||||||||||||||
| Enteric Fever | – | ||||||||||||||
| Relapsing and Continued Fever | – | ||||||||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 6 | 6 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 19 | 19 | 19 | ||||||||||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 8 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||||||
| Poliomyelitis | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 8 | 8 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Tuberculosis of Respiratory System | 209 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 26 | 98 | 25 | 33 | 7 | – | 73 | |||
| Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 38 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 12 | ||||||
| Measles | 845 | 25 | 56 | 76 | 99 | 79 | 479 | 21 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 69 | 2 | |
| Encephalitis Lethargica | – | ||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 58 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 93 | ||||
| Diarrhoea | 16 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | 10 | 13 | ||||||
| Malaria | – | ||||||||||||||
| Trench Fever Whooping Gough | 132 | 19 | 20 | 13 | 25 | 17 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 19 | |||||
| Totals | 1642 | 69 | 105 | 114 | 146 | 122 | 622 | 69 | 89 | 174 | 38 | 67 | 27 | 421 | 198 |