Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Analysis of Cases (after Correction of Diagnosis) of Infectious Disease Notified during the Year 1950.
Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Battersea, at Ages (Years). | |||||||||||
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0— | 1- | 2- | 3— | 4— | 5— | 10— | 15— | 25— | 45- | 65 & over | Total | |
Small-pox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Diphtheria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Erysipelas | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | 7 | 7 | 3 | 18 |
Scarlet fever | – | 3 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 80 | 19 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 152 |
Enteric (typhoid) fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Continued fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Puerperal pyrexia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 8 | – | – | 12 |
Meningococcal meningitis | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
Polio-myelitis : — | ||||||||||||
Paralytic | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
Non-paralytic | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 2 |
Polio-encephalitis : — | ||||||||||||
Infective | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Post-infectious | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Encephalitis lethargica | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Malaria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Dysentery | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 7 |
Acute primary pneumonia | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 72 |
Acute influenzal pneumonia | – | – | – | 3 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 |
Scabies | – | – | – | – | 1 | 7 | – | 7 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 28 |
Food poisoning | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | – | 9 |
Whooping cough | 24 | 38 | 28 | 56 | 49 | 136 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | – | 338 |
Measles | 19 | 24 | 40 | 50 | 32 | 64 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 231 |
Tuberculosis : — | ||||||||||||
Pulmonary | 1 | 2 | 2 | – | 3 | 5 | 3 | 43 | 43 | 26 | 6 | 134 |
Non-pulmonary | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 2 | – | 2 | 6 | 2 | – | 15 |
Totals | 54 | 75 | 93 | 127 | 109 | 308 | 31 | 62 | 93 | 56 | 29 | 1,037 |