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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 1957

[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 1957, 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
19571956195519541953195219511950
Scarlet fever334550527810868100
Diphtheria (including membranous croup)-12-2-12
Enteric fever5107552712
Puerperal pyrexia1231171259665832218
Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia756510554937114969
Dysentery77889968131318118
Erysipelas7591411111317
Meningococcal infection36216485
Malaria51645122
Acute poliomyelitis Paralytic131410591787
Non-paralytic2720-5446
Acute encephalitis3241-31-
Tuberculosis (all forms)208258218243256251238278
Measles9823581425947408391314696
Ophthalmia neonatorum114272212
Enteritis +1014132027302563
Food poisoning5263535879201823
Scabies5240544242263472
Whooping cough130236116136485228484316
Typhus fever---1----
TOTALS1781133123228962046173124791716

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