[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough] page 43

Kensington 1951

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Notifiable disease	Number of cases notified
Notifiable disease	1951	1950	1949	1948	1947	1946	1945	1944
Scarlet fever	68	100	114	94	98	195	136	74
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)	1	2	2	12	23	37	19	29
Enteric fever	7	12	7	4	4	6	3	3
Puerperal fever Ø	—	—	—	—	3	4	7	18
Puerperal Pyrexia	22	18	33	25	9	8	12	23
Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia	149	69	121	142	103	111	81	91
Dysentery	81	18	33	145	21	49	142	43
Erysipelas	13	17	15	24	34	37	33	16
Meningococcal infection	8	5	8	4	7	10	3	6
Malaria	2	2	—	2	4	8	11	8
Acute poliomyelitis Paralytic	8	7
Non-paralytic	4	6	47	9	27	1	3	1
Acute encephalitis	1	—	1	—	2	—	1	—
Tuberculosis (all forms)	238	278	266	258	259	210	188	211
Measles	1314	696	740	868	852	264	868	102
Ophthalmia Neonatorum	2	12	5	7	4	4	8	4
Enteritis +	25	63	88	64	102	69	100	71
Food poisoning	18	23	33	11	7	7	6	7
Scabies	34	72	106	141	239	463	460	363
Whooping Cough	484	316	304	264	274	209	62	189
TOTALS	2479	1716	1923	2074	2072	1692	2143	1259

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Ø Puerperal Pyrexia only notifiable in London
since 1948.
+ Notifiable only in children under the age of 5.
NOTE: Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded
from above table.

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