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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 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE, 1962
| -1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25-44 | 45-64 | 65 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | - | 2 | 2 | 11 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 16 |
| Whooping Cough | 3 | 10 | 5 | 12 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 32 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis: Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Non-Paralytic: | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 7 | 39 | 46 | 71 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 165 |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Pneumonia | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| Dysentery | 7 | 28 | 22 | 45 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 138 |
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Encephalitis Infective | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Encephalitis Post Infectious | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Food Poisoning | 4 | 3 | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 33 | 52 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | - | 5 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Scabies | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 |
| Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | - | 2 | - | - | 3 | 11 | 30 | 16 | 13 | 75 |
| Tuberculosis, Non-Pulmonary | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Totals | 24 | 85 | 75 | 145 | 19 | 30 | 52 | 29 | 54 | 513 |
The incidence of infectious disease was low.
There were 513 notifications - a decrease of 1,035 compared with the figure (1,548) for 1961.
Whooping Cough continues to be a relatively unimportant disease - the nation-wide vaccination
against this disease having effectively reduced the liability to this very distressing and
damaging complaint of infants and young children.
TUBERCULOSIS
The tuberculosis death rate of 5.42 has risen slightly compared with last year when it was
3.5. There has been a steady decline in the incidence and mortality of this disease since the end
of the war, largely due to the introduction at that time of drugs which are effective against the
tubercle bacillus. The dramatic improvement is shown by the fact that, in 1952, the tuberculosis
death rate per 100,000 population was 19.54. The notification rate for tuberculosis in 1962 was 75.1
compared with 60.9 in 1961. Ten years ago, in 1952, the rate was 155.0.