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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
Kensington 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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| Notifiable disease. | Number of cases notified. | total cases notified in each ware | Cases admitted to | Total Deaths. | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all ages. | At ages – years. | St. Charles. | Golborne | Norland. | Pembridge. | Holland. | Earl's Court. | Queens Gate. | Redcliffe. | Brompton. | ||||||||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 2. | 2 t0 3. | 3 to 4. | 4 to 5. | 5 to 10. | 10 to 15. | 15 to 20. | 20 to 35. | 35 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 & over. | |||||||||||||
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Searlet | 117 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 9 | ... | 22 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 6 | – | 40 | 10 | 25 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 111 | – |
| Diphtheria (including nembranous croup) | 102 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 8 | 34 | 11 | 3 | 14 | 2 | – | – | 39 | 23 | 4 | 3 | 9 | – | 11 | 12 | 1 | 100 | 4 |
| Enteric fever. | 9 | ! | – | – | – | – | – | ! i | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | 8 | – |
| Puerperal fever | 5 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 5 | 3 | |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 34 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 4 | 28 | 2 | – | – | 9 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 3 | – | – | 1 | 31 | 3 |
| acute influenzal pneumonia | 109 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 19 | 11 | 26 | 26 | 20 | 37 | 13 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 66 | 52 |
| Dysentery | 14 | 2 | 4 | 3 | – | 1 | 3 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 5 | 1 | 4 | – | 3 | – | – | 1 | – | 12 | – |
| Erysipelas | 45 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | ... | 11 | 5 | 17 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 27 | – |
| Encephalitis lethargica | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 2 | 5 |
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis. | 4 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – |
| Continued fever | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – |
| Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 3 | – |
| Pulmponary tuberculosis | 157 | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | Tβ | 69 | 25 | 25 | 9 | 26 | 23 | 17 | 27 | 14 | 21 | 10 | 11 | 8 | 139 | 79 |
| Other forms of tuberculosis | 23 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 7 |
| Measles. | 31 | 2 | 2 | 6 | – | 1 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2 | – | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 15 | – |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 8 | 8 | – | – ! | – | -1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – |
| Whooping cough | 345 | 47 | 60 | 61 | 59 | 45 | 69 | 2 | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 129 | 105 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 50 | 30 | 3 | 66 | 7 |
| Malaria. | - | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| +Enteritis (diarrhoea) | 31 | 26 | 1 | 3 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 2 | – | 5 | 1 | – | 24 | 27 |
| Food poisoning | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| øAcute rheumatism | 18 | – | – | – | – | – | 10 | 8 | — | – | – | 1 | – | $ | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – |
| Totals. | 1061 | 101 | 82 | 92 | 83 | 66 | 163 | 61 | 44 | 187 | 55 | 82 | 45 | 30 | 245 | 95 | 99 | 68 | 55 | 89 | 86 | 23 | 604 | 187 |
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