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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 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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TABLE l0 INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| DISEASE | NOTIFICATIONS | Total Notified | Corrected figures | Removed to Hospital | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 year | 1-2 years | 3-4 years | 5 - 14 years | 15-24 years | 25-44 years | 45-64 years | 65 - years | ||||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 5 | - | 5 |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 10 | 19 | 43 | 1 | - | - | - | 73 | 70 | 32 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 | - |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 15 | 14 | 5 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Acute Pneumonia | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | 5 |
| Dysentery | 3 | 27 | 19 | 37 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 102 | 99 | 11 |
| Measles | 33 | 172 | 196 | 230 | 3 | 2 | - | - | 636 | 636 | 46 |
| Whooping Cough | 32 | 82 | 86 | 90 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 292 | 289 | 21 |
| Scabies | - | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 13 | - |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | - | 1 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 21 | 17 | 5 | 64 | 64 | |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 4 | |
| TOTALS | 72 | 296 | 328 | 410 | 37 | 38 | 30 | 18 | 1,229 | 1,212 | 133 |