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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 and Chelsea 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington & Chelsea Borough]
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TABLE 2
| Notifiable disease | Number of cases notified in 1965. Age groups in years. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 | 1 - 2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10 - 14 | 15 - 24 | 25 and over | |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 2 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 4 | - |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | |
| Puerperal pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 42 | 31 |
| Pneumonia | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 |
| Dysentery | 1 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Meningococcal infection | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | 1 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 33 | 93 |
| Measles | 39 | 294 | 330 | 376 | 17 | 22 | 6 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Food poisoning | 3 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
| Scabies | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| Whooping Cough | 6 | 9 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
| TOTALS | 51 | 318 | 358 | 400 | 38 | 111 | 164 |