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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
Bethnal Green 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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TABLE 10
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| DISEASE | NOTIFICATIONS | Total Notified | Corrected figures | Removed to Hospital | Deaths | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 years | 1-2 years | 2-5 years | 5-15 years | 15-25 years | 25-45 years | 45-65 years | 65- years | |||||
| Diphtheria | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 6 | 1 | 6 | — |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 5 | 41 | 56 | 2 | - | - | - | 104 | 102 | 31 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | 4 | 5 | - | - | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 16 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 16 | - | — |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 2 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 3 | - |
| Acute Pneumonia | l | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 9 | 46 | 16 | 8 | - |
| Dysentery | 14 | 22 | 87 | 51 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 6 | 212 | 212 | 26 | - |
| Measles | 70 | 176 | 753 | 341 | 4 | 1 | - | - | 1345 | 1340 | 41 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 29 | 38 | 85 | 56 | - | 1 | - | - | 209 | 205 | 37 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | ||
| Scabies | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | 4 | - | 1 | 9 | 9 | - | - |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | - | 5 | 5 | 8 | 25 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 82 | 82 | - | 8 |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 1 | - | - | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | - | 9 | 9 | - | 1 |
| Total | 133 | 247 | 978 | 526 | 53 | 69 | 35 | 22 | 2063 | 2044 | 158 | 9 |