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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 1966
[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) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |