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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 1955

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

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68
Notifications
The following tables show (1) the number of cases of
infectious disease notified during the year 1955, with
comparative figures for the previous seven years; (2) the number
of notifications divided into age groups; and (3) the number of
cases notified in each ward of the borough.

Table: TABLE 1

TABLE 1

Notifiable diseaseNumber of cases notified
195519541953195219511950194919248
Scarlet fever5052781086810011494
Diphtheria (including
Membranous Croup)2-2—12212
Enteric fever755271274
Puerperal pyrexia12596658322183325
Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal
pneumonia10554937114969121142
Dysentery996813131811833145
Erysipelas914111113171524
Meningococcal infection21648584
Malaria645122—2
Acute poliomyelitis
Paralytic10591787479
Non-paralytic20-5446
Acute encephalitis41-31—1-
Tuberculosis (all forms)218243256251238278266258
Measles1425947408391314696740868
Ophthalmia Neonatorum427221257
Enteritis1320273025638864
Food poisoning5358792018233311
Scabies544242263472106141
Whooping Cough116136485228484316304264
Typhus fever—1—————-
TOTALS:2322896184617312479171619232074

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+ Notifiable only in children under the age of 5.
NOTE: Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded
from above table.