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 1966 (Age groups in years) | |||||||
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Age unknown | Under 1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25 and over | |
Diphtheria | — | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 1 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 | - | 7 |
Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Enteric Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 |
Food Poisoning | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 6 | 12 |
Malaria | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
Measles | 11 | 25 | 143 | 149 | 152 | 11 | 19 | 5 |
Meningococcal infection | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 |
Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | 27 | 27 |
Scarlet Fever | - | - | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
Tuberculosis (all forms) | 1 | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 65 |
Whooping Cough | - | 5 | 22 | 17 | 23 | 2 | — | - |
TOTALS | 13 | 33 | 183 | 180 | 189 | 21 | 73 | 126 |