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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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TABLE 2
| Notifiable disease | Number of cases notified in 1969 (Age groups in years) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age unknown | Under 1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10 - 14 | 15 - 24 | 25 and over | |
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | - | 3 | 2 |
| Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | - | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 21 | 21 |
| Infective Jaundice | 2 | - | - | 4 | 7 | 3 | 35 | 26 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 |
| Measles | 2 | 17 | 62 | 45 | 67 | 6 | 9 | 3 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | - | - |
| Tuberculosis (all forms) | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | - | 5 | 20 | 48 |
| Whooping Cough | - | - | 3 | 4 | 5 | - | - | - |
| TOTALS | 6 | 25 | 70 | 63 | 81 | 20 | 94 | 107 |