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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 1956

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

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Notifications
The following tables show (l) the number of cases of
infectious disease notified during the year 1956, 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
19561955195419531952195119501949
Scarlet fever4550527810868100114
Diphtheria (including membranous croup)12-2–122
Enteric fever1075527127
Puerperal pyrexia117125966583221833
Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia6510554937114969121
Dysentery88996813131811833
Erysipelas59141111131715
Meningococcal infection62164858
Malaria Acute poliomyelitis1645122–
Paralytic141059178747
Non-paralytic720–5446
Acute encephalitis241-31–1
Tuberculosis (all forms)258218243256251238278266
Measles3581425947408391314696740
Ophthalmia neonatorum142722125
Enteritis +1413202730256388
Pood poisoning6353587920182333
Scabies40544242263472106
Whooping cough236116136485228484316304
Typhus fever--1-----
TOTALS1331232289620461731247917161923

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