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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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TABLE 2
| Notifiable disease | Number of Cases Notified in 1958 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 | - | 2 | 7 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Diphtheria (including membranous croup) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric fever | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | - | - | - | 55 | 61 | ||
| Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 57 |
| Dysentery | 4 | 22 | 17 | 28 | 8 | 5 | 33 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 11 |
| Meningococcal infection | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute poliomyelitis Paralytic | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Non-paralytic | - | - | - | - | 2 | ||
| Acute encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | - | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 128 |
| Measles | 33 | 154 | 162 | 275 | 11 | 10 | 9 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Enteritis | 8 | 5 | - | - | - | - | |
| Food poisoning | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | - | 8 | 28 |
| Scabies | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 26 | |
| Whooping cough | 17 | 24 | 21 | 27 | 1 | 2 | - |
| TOTALS | 74 | 221 | 216 | 351 | 29 | 147 | 362 |
TABLE 3
| Notifiable disease | Total cases notified in each Ward | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St.Charles | Golborne | Norland | Pembridge | Holland | Earls Court | Queens Gate | Redcliffe | Brompton | |
| Scarlet fever | 8 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Diphtheria (including membranous croup) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric fever | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 76 | 2 | - |
| Acute primary pneumonia and | |||||||||
| acute influenzal pneumonia | 11 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 2 | 15 | 4 |
| Dysentery | 27 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 17 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 3 | - | 1 | 4 | - | 2 | - | 1 | - |
| Meningococcal infection | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Acute poliomyelitis | |||||||||
| Paralytic | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Non-paralytic | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Acute encephalitis | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 23 | 29 | 16 | 25 | 16 | 27 | 13 | 18 | 12 |
| Measles | 133 | 194 | 40 | 78 | 42 | 65 | 17 | 70 | 15 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Enteritis | 4 | 5 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | - |
| Food poisoning | 7 | 7 | 6 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 |
| Scabies | 9 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 3 | l | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| Whooping cough | 23 | 25 | 5 | 23 | 3 | 6 | - | 7 | - |