Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 | ||||||||
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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 | - |