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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
Battersea 1951
[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 1951.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Battersea, at Ages (Years). | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- | 1— | 2- | 3- | 4— | 5— | 10— | 15— | 25— | 45- | 65 & over | Total | |
| Small-pox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diphtheria | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Erysipelas | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 9 | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Scarlet fever | – | 2 | 4 | 14 | 21 | 59 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | – | 114 |
| Enteric (typhoid) fever | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Continued fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Puerperal pyrexia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 16 | 20 | – | – | 36 |
| Meningococcal meningitis | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Polio-myelitis :— | ||||||||||||
| Paralytic | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
| Non-paralytic | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Acute Encephalitis :— | 1 | |||||||||||
| Infective | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Post-infectious | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Encephalitis lethargica | – | – | – | — | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Malaria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Dysentery | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 3 | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 14 |
| Acute primary pneumonia | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 16 | 10 | 69 |
| Acute influenzal pneumonia | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 3 | 4 | 6 | 14 |
| Scabies | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 19 |
| Food poisoning | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | – | 7 |
| Whooping cough | 29 | 49 | 47 | 48 | 50 | 110 | 3 | – | 2 | – | 2 | 340 |
| Measles | 94 | 325 | 354 | 431 | 460 | 959 | 21 | 11 | 9 | – | – | 2,664 |
| Tuberculosis :— | 9 | – | ||||||||||
| Pulmonary | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | 6 | 1 | 49 | 59 | 27 | 7 | 152 |
| Non-pulmonary | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 6 | – | – | 10 |
| Totals | 134 | 385 | 414 | 501 | 538 | 1,149 | 40 | 94 | 128 | 65 | 28 | 3,476 |