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 & 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 |