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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 1952
[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 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1 year | 1-2 years | 3-4 years | 5-14 years | 15-24 years | 25-44 years | 45-64 years | 65 and upwards | |||||
| Diphtheria | - | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | . | 7 | 2 | 7 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 9 | 55 | 116 | 5 | 2 | - | - | 188 | 185 | 75 | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | _ | 4 | 4 | _ | - | 8 | 8 | _ | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 18 | _ | - | - | - | _ | _ | - | 18 | 18 | - | |
| Erysipelas | - | _ | - | - | - | 3 | 11 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 11 | |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | _ | - | 1 | 3 | - | _ | _ | 4 | 1 | 4 | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | _ | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Acute Pneumonia | l | l | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 7 | 32 | 32 | 10 | |
| Dysentery | 3 | 12 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | - | 58 | 55 | 10 | |
| Measles | 19 | 65 | 217 | 250 | 2 | 5 | - | - | 558 | 551 | 32 | |
| Whooping Cough | 15 | 26 | 37 | 20 | - | - | - | - | 98 | 95 | 20 | |
| Scabies | - | l | _ | 3 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 10 | 10 | - | |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | - | - | - | 4 | 21 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 71 | 71 | - | |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | - | 8 | 8 | - | |
| TOTAL | 57 | 115 | 333 | 412 | 46 | 65 | 37 | 15 | 1080 | 1056 | 171 | |