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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 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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TABLE 10
TABLE 10
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 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | ||||||||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | ||||
| Acute Encephalitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | |||||||||
| Acute Pneumonia | - | - | - | - | I | |||||||
| Paratyphoid "B" | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
| Dysentery | 6 | 65 | ||||||||||
| Measles | 290 | - | - | |||||||||
| Whooping Cough | - | - | - | |||||||||
| Scabies | - | - | - | |||||||||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | - | |||||||||||
| Meninges and C.N.S. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Other forms | — | - | - | l | - | |||||||
| TOTALS | 270 | 22 | 1,108 | |||||||||