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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 1943
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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TABLE 2.
TABLE 2. INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFIED DURING 1943.
| Notifiable Diseases | Number of cases notified | Total cases removed to Hospoital | Deaths | D.N.C. | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages | At Ages – Years | |||||||||||||||
| 0- | 1- | 2- | 3- | 4- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 20- | 35- | 45- | 65 | |||||
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | — | m | — |
| Cholera, Plague | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Diphtheria | 43 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 1 | – | – | – | 43 | 2 | 17 |
| Erysipelas | 52 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 22 | 10 | 21 | – | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 425 | 4 | 16 | 31 | 36 | 43 | 176 | 76 | 16 | 20 | 5 | 2 | – | 302 | 1 | 3 |
| Typhus Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Paratyphoid | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | |
| Relapsing & continued fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Puerperal Fever | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | 4 | 3 | – |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 32 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 28 | 3 | – | – | 18 | – | – |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 7 | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 7 | – | – |
| Poliomyelitis Ophthalmia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Neonatorum Tuberculosis of Respiratory | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| System | 209 | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 | 3 | 21 | 93 | 40 | 41 | 7 | – | 86 | – |
| Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 43 | – | 3 | – | – | – | 7 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 9 | – | – | 7 | – |
| Measles | 1028 | 53 | 122 | 137 | 116 | 152 | 407 | 18 | 8 | 11 | 3 | – | 1 | 145 | 2 | 2 |
| Encaphalitis Lethargica | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – |
| Pneumonia | 82 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | – | 8 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 26 | 7 | 8 | 110 | – |
| Diarrhoea (under 5 years) | 62 | 47 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 54 | 26 | – |
| Malaria | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – |
| Whooping cough | 343 | 41 | 61 | 44 | 52 | 46 | 92 | 5 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 73 | 3 | 3 |
| Dysentery | 44 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | – | 9 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 36 | – | 1 |
| Scabies (notifiable since 1.8.43 | 312 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 43 | 29 | 39 | 91 | 40 | 30 | 6 | – | – | – |
| I fa I L | 2690 | 161 | 232 | 235 | 230 | 265 | 747 | 144 | 105 | 285 | 116 | 137 | 33 | 713 | 241 | 27 |