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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bethnal Green Borough]
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TABLE 10 INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
| DISEASE | NOTIFICATIONS | Total notified | corrected Figure | 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 Scarlet Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Scarlet Fever | 1 | 9 | 18 | 56 | 1 | – | – | – | 85 | 84 | 14 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | 3 | 3 | – |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | – | |
| Erysipelas | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 2 | 2 | – |
| Meningococcal Infection | – | 2 | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Acute Encephalitis | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | – | 2 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Acute Pneumonia | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| Paratyphoid "B" | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Dysentery | 9 | 38 | 17 | 41 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 127 | 124 | 19 |
| Measles | 4 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 1 | – | – | 47 | 46 | 7 |
| Whooping Cough | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 12 | 12 | 3 |
| Scabies | – | – | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | – | 14 | 14 | – |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | – | – | – | 2 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 10 | 38 | 38 | – |
| Meninges and C.N.S. | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Other forms | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| TOTALS | 18 | 69 | 49 | 121 | 22 | 34 | 14 | 15 | 342 | 337 | 54 |
There was one case of Malaria contracted abroad.