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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 3
| Disease | Total cases notified in each Ward in 1966 | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Charles | Golborne | Norland | Pembridge | Holland | Earls Court | Queen's Gate | Redcliffe | Brompton | North Stanley | South Stanley | Church | Cheyne | Hans Town | Royal Hospital | |
| Dysentery | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | - | 2 | — | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Food Poisoning | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Malaria | 1 | ||||||||||||||
| Measles | 119 | 93 | 53 | 71 | 11 | 36 | 17 | 49 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 16 | 2 | 14 |
| Meningococcal infection | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 | ||||||||||||||
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 5 | 6 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | |||||||
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 20 | 11 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 13 | 28 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |||||