London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1948
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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TABLE 2
| Notifiable Disease. | Number of Cases Notified in 1948 Age Groups in Years. | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 2 to 3 | 3 to 4 | 4 to 5 | 5 to 15 | 15 to 35 | 35 to 65 | 65 and over. | ||||||
| Scarlet Fever. | 6 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 50 | 13 | 5 | |||||||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup). | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | |||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 4 | |||||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 22 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia. | 12 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 27 | 49 | 12 | |||||
| Dysentery. | 12 | 29 | 20 | 7 | 8 | 12 | 28 | 22 | 7 | |||||
| Erysipelas. | 1 | 4 | 18 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis. | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Malaria. | 2 | |||||||||||||
| Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis. | 2 | 6 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Encephalitis lethargica. | ||||||||||||||
| Tuberculosis (all forms). | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 156 | 66 | 7 | |||||
| Measles. | 41 | 132 | 136 | 104 | 110 | 301 | 36 | 8 | ||||||
| Ophthalmia neonatorum. | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Enteritis. | 42 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 2 | |||||||||
| Food poisoning. | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||
| Acute rheumatism. | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Scabies. | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 39 | 62 | 25 | 3 | ||||||
| Whooping cough. | 30 | 41 | 38 | 29 | 29 | 89 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| TOTALS | 155 | 237 | 216 | 162 | 171 | 532 | 373 | 204 | 31 | |||||
TABLE 3
| Notifiable Disease. | Total Cases Notified in each Ward. | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Charles | Golborne | Norland | Pembr1dge | Holland | Earls Court | Queens Gate | Redcl1ffe | Brompton | |
| Scarlet Fever. | 18 | 9 | 23 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 4 | 8 | 1 |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Enteric Fever. | 1 | 2 | l | ||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia. | 10 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia. | 34 | 32 | 33 | 19 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| Dysentery. | 61 | 14 | 17 | 32 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Erysipelas, | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | |||
| Cerebro-spinal meningitis. | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Malaria. | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis. | _— | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Encephalitis lethargica. | |||||||||
| Tuberculosis (all forms). | 49 | 27 | 25 | 20 | 37 | 18 | 37 | 22 | |
| Measles. | 238 | 84 | 139 | 118 | 34 | 83 | 42 | 110 | 20 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum. | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Enteritis. | 15 | 26 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Food poisoning. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Acute rheumatism. | 4 | 3 | |||||||
| Scabies. | 25 | 29 | 4 | 32 | 17 | 12 | 2 | 17 | 3 |
| Whooping Cough. | 74 | 31 | 38 | 29 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 46 | 3 |