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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 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington & Chelsea Borough]
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TABLE 2
Notifiable disease
Number of cases notified in 1968
(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
3
-
4
5
Encephalitis
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
Enteric Fever
-
-
-
-
-
1
-
.
Erysipelas
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
Food Poisoning
-
5
1
-
1
-
3
8
Infective Jaundice
-
-
1
-
-
6
17
17
Malaria
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
2
Measles
5
18
79
79
90
3
11
11
Meningococcal
Infection
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Pneumonia
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
1
Poliomyelitis
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Puerperal Pyrexia
1
-
-
-
-
-
13
19
Scarlet Fever
-
1
3
6
10
5
7
2
Tuberculosis (all
forms)
-
-
3
4
4
-
15
75
Whooping Cough
-
3
16
11
11
2
-
3
TOTALS
6
27
104
101
119
17
70
146