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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 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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NOTIFICATIONS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE 1964 (in age groups)
| 1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25-44 | 45-64 | 65 + | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | – | 1 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 17 |
| Whooping Cough | 7 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 40 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis: Paralytic | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Non-Paralytic: | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Measles | 10 | 59 | 50 | 67 | 5 | 3 | – | – | – | 194 |
| Diphtheria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Acute Pneumonia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Dysentery | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 25 |
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Acute Encephalitis Infective | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Acute Encephalitis Post Infectious | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Typhoid Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Paratyphoid Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Erysipelas | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Meningococcal Infection | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Food Poisoning | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | 3 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Malaria | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| Scabies | – | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | 3 |
| Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | – | 1 | – | – | 2 | 3 | 11 | 20 | 8 | 45 |
| Tuberculosis, Non-Pulmonary | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | 6 |
| TOTALS | 20 | 76 | 67 | 93 | 12 | 16 | 21 | 27 | 15 | 347 |
There were 347 notifications - a decrease of 1,104 compared with the figure 1,451 for 1963
TUBERCULOSIS
The tuberculosis death rate of 5.48 is roughly half that of last year when it was 10.93. In 1954,
the tuberculosis death rate per 100,000 population was 24.03. The notification rate for tuberculosis in
1964 was 47,53 compared with 64.60 in 1963.