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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 1967
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington & Chelsea Borough]
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TABLE 2
| Notifiable disease | Number of cases notified in 1967 (Age groups in years) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age unknown | Under 1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10 - 14 | 15 - 24 | I 25 and over | |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | - | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | - | 2 | 3 |
| Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric fever | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
| Food poisoning | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | 3 | 5 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | 1 |
| Measles | 18 | 34 | 214 | 249 | 294 | 9 | 16 | 13 |
| Meningococcal infection | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 9 |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal pyrexia | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 23 |
| Scarlet fever | - | - | 2 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | - |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 1 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | 8 | 64 |
| Whooping cough | 2 | 7 | 15 | 21 | 28 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| TOTALS | 23 | 42 | 233 | 277 | 338 | 16 | 57 | 123 |