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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 1952
[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). | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |