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 1952.
Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Battersea,6 at Ages (Years). | ||||||||||
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0— | 1— | 3— | 5— | 10- | 15— | 25— | | 35— | 45- | 65 & over | Total | |
Small Pox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Diphtheria | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
Erysipelas | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | 4 | 4 | – | 12 |
Scarlet fever | _ | 6 | 29 | 75 | 8 | 2 | 2 | – | – | – | 122 |
Enteric (typhoid) fever | — | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Continued fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Puerperal pyrexia | – | – | – | – | – | 19 | 15 | 6 | – | – | 40 |
Meningococcal infections | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
Ophthalmia neonatorum | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Polio-myelitis:- | 2 | ||||||||||
Paralytic | 2 | 2 | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 | |
Non-paralytic | – | 2 | 1 | 2 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 6 | |
Acute Encephalitis — | |||||||||||
Infective | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Post-infectious | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Malaria | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 10 |
Dysentery | 1 | – | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | 10 |
Acute primary pneumonia | 10 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 22 | 20 | 105 |
Acute influenzal pneumonia | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
Scabies | 2 | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | 5 |
Food poisoning | – | 2 | – | – | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 6 |
Whooping cough | 11 | 44 | 32 | 51 | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 141 |
Measles | 29 | 212 | 260 | 456 | 27 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | – | 1,007 |
Tuberculosis :— | 22 | ||||||||||
Pulmonary | – | 4 | 2 | 11 | – | 35 | 53 | 22 | 39 | 5 | 171 |
Non-pulmonary | – | 1 | 1 | – | – | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 17 |
Totals | 54 | 282 | 336 | 617 | 38 | 77 | 94 | 56 | 77 | 30 | 1,661 |