London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kensington & Chelsea Borough]
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TABLE 2
| Notifiable disease | Number of cases notified in 1970 (Age groups in years) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age unknown | Under 1 | 1-2 | 3-4 | 5-9 | 10-14 | 15-24 | 25 and over | |
| Dysentery | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Food Poisoning | — | 4 | 6 | 5 | 3 | — | 15 | 15 |
| Infective Jaundice | — | — | — | 3 | 14 | 10 | 36 | 45 |
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 3 |
| Measles | 1 | 16 | 65 | 69 | 88 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Poliomyelitis | — | — | — | —- | — | — | — | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 2 | — | 3 |
| Tuberculosis (All forms) | — | 1 | — | 1 | 7 | — | 16 | 63 |
| Whooping Cough | — | 5 | 10 | 4 | 12 | — | — | — |
| TOTALS | 2 | 31 | 86 | 88 | 134 | 19 | 76 | 140 |