Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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TABLE 2
Notifiable disease | Number of Cases Notified in 1953 Age Groups in Years | ||||||
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Under 1 | 1 to 2 | 3 to 4 | 5 to 9 | 10 to 14 | 15 to 24 | 25 & over | |
Scarlet fever | 1 | 8 | 17 | 42 | 5 | 2 | |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | - | 1 | 1 | ||||
Enteric fever | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | 31 | |||||
Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | |
Dysentery | 8 | 34 | 23 | 28 | 5 | 7 | 26 |
Erysipelas | 1 | 10 | |||||
Meningococcal infection | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
Malaria | 4 | 1 | |||||
Acute poliomyeltis Paralytic | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | ||
Non-paralytic | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||
Acute encephalitis | |||||||
Tuberculosis (all forms) | 3 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 56 | 172 |
Measles | 18 | 153 | 236 | 244 | 18 | 32 | 39 |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 7 | ||||||
Enteritis | 17 | 5 | 5 | ||||
food poisoning | 6 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 60 | |
Scabies | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 14 | 18 | |
Whooping cough | 47 | 127 | 126 | 175 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
TOTALS: | 106 | 517 | 48 | 166 | 445 |
TABLE 3
Notifiable disease | Total Cases Notified in each Ward | ||||||||
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St.Charles | Golborne | Norland | Pembridge | Holland | Earls Court | Queens Gate | Redcliffe | Brompton | |
Scarlet fever | 18 | 11 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 3 |
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
Enteric fever | 2 | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 | - | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 29 | 8 | 4 |
Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia | 17 | 18 | 11 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 4 |
Dysentery | 29 | 26 | 9 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 16 | 8 |
Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | - | 4 | 1 | - | - |
Meningococcal infection | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
Malaria | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - |
Acute poliomyelitis Paralytic | 2 | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 |
Non-paralytic | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - |
Acute encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — |
Tuberculosis (all forms) | 39 | 37 | 40 | 38 | 24 | 23 | 14 | 30 | 11 |
Measles | 122 | 93 | 45 | 81 | 102 | 93 | 70 | 77 | 57 |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 | 1 | 4 | - | - | — | - | - | - |
Enteritis | 3 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 8 | — | — | 1 | - |
Food poisoning | 55 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | - |
Scabies | 5 | 6 | 4 | 12 | — | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 |
Whooping cough | 106 | 108 | 90 | 57 | 35 | 19 | 5 | 55 | 10 |