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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 1953
[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 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |