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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 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington & Chelsea Borough]
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ILLEGITIMACY
The proportion of illegitimate births per 1,000 live births is again
lower than for several years. The figures are:-
1965 201
1966 201
1967 212
1968 198
1969 194
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The total number of notifications received during 1969 was 466 in
comparison with 590 in 1968.
Notifications
The following Tables show (l) the number of cases of infectious
disease notified during the year 1969, with the comparative figures for
the previous five years; (2) the number of notifications divided into age
groups; and (3) the number of cases notified in each ward of the borough:-
TABLE 1
| Notifiable disease | Number of cases notified | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 1968 | 1967 | 1966 | 1965 | |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 11 | 14 | 11 | 30 | 31 |
| Encephalitis | - | 1 | - | — | |
| Enteric Fever | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 5 |
| Erysipelas | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 |
| Food Poisoning | 53 | 18 | 12 | 20 | 15 |
| Infective Jaundice | 77 | 4l | NOT NOTIFIABLE | ||
| Malaria | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
| Measles | 211 | 296 | 847 | 515 | 1,084 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | - | — | 2 | 2 |
| Poliomyelitis: Paralytic | - | - | - | - | - |
| Non-Paralytic | - | - | — | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 7 | 34 | 15 | 18 | 27 |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 79 | 101 | 77 | 97 | 139 |
| Whooping Cough | 12 | 46 | 78 | 69 | 34 |
| TOTALS | 466 | 556 | 1,050 | 759 | 1,344 |
NOTE: Cases of mistaken diagnosis are excluded from
the above Table