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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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington Borough]
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TABLE 1
| Notifiable disease | Number of cases notified | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 1962 | 1961 | 1960 | 1959 | 1958 | 1957 | 1956 | |
| Scarlet fever | 9 | 15 | 30 | 29 | 54 | 27 | 33 | 45 |
| Diphtheria (including membranous croup) | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Enteric fever | 7 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 74 | 103 | 168 | 138 | 112 | 116 | 123 | 117 |
| Acute primary pneumonia & acute influenzal pneu-monia | 13 | 20 | 28 | 16 | 60 | 70 | 75 | 65 |
| Dysentery | 36 | 57 | 97 | 71 | 110 | 117 | 77 | 88 |
| Erysipelas | 2 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 5 |
| Meningococcal infection | 4 | - | 2 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 6 |
| Malaria | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| Acute poliomyelitis: Paralytic | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 13 | 14 |
| Non-paralytic | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Acute encephalitis | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 151 | 160 | 195 | 164 | 194 | 179 | 208 | 258 |
| Measles | 944 | 269 | 1497 | 457 | 737 | 654 | 982 | 358 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
| Enteritis* | 3 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 14 |
| Pood poisoning | 31 | 18 | 42 | 40 | 65 | 47 | 52 | 63 |
| Scabies | 33 | 18 | 25 | 28 | 42 | 52 | 52 | 40 |
| Whooping Cough | 79 | 22 | 30 | 154 | 83 | 92 | 130 | 236 |
| TOTALS: | 1394 | 714 | 2150 | 1138 | 1489 | 1400 | 1781 | 1331 |
* Notifiable only in children under the age of 5'
NOTE: Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from the above table.
TABLE 2
| Notifiable Disease | Number of Cases Notified in 1963 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 | -- | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | |
| Diphtheria (including membranous croup) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric fever | _ | 1 | — | 4 | 2 | ||
| Puerperal pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 33 | 41 |
| Acute primary pneumonia and acute influenzal pneumonia | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 9 |
| Dysentery | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | - | 8 | 9 |
| Erysipelas | — | - | - | _ | 2 | ||
| Meningococcal infection | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | |
| Acute poliomyelitis: Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 1 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 25 | 106 |
| Measles | 50 | 267 | 225 | 317 | 20 | 28 | 37 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteritis | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pood poisoning | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 18 |
| Scabies | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 13 |
| Whooping Cough | 8 | 16 | 19 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 2 |
| TOTALS: | 74 | 302 | 263 | 364 | 32 | 116 | 243 |