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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 1956
[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 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-1 year | 1-2 years | 3-4 years | 5-14 years | 15-24 years | 25-44 years | 45-64 years | 65 - years | ||||
| Diphtheria | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Scarlet Fever | 3 | 6 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 27 | 13 | |||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | |||||||||||
| Erysipelas | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Acute Encephalitis | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 6 | |||||
| Acute Pneumonia | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 4 | ||||
| Paratyphoid "B" | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| Dysentery | 1 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 25 | 8 | |
| Measles | 10 | 71 | 66 | 58 | 205 | 204 | 21 | ||||
| Whooping Cough | 17 | 34 | 43 | 51 | 145 | 145 | 10 | ||||
| Scabies | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 13 | |||||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 1 | 5 | 17 | 16 | 19 | 3 | 61 | 60 | |||
| Meninges and C.N.S. | |||||||||||
| Other forms | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| TOTALS | 30 | 117 | 120 | 157 | 25 | 33 | 23 | 9 | 514 | 501 | 71 |