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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 1960
[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 and over | ||||
| Scarlet Fever | _ | 3 | 8 | 1 | - | - | - | 12 | 11 | 2 | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | 4 | 4 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 2 | 3 | |
| Acute Encephalitis | _ | _ | _ | 1 | _ | _ | _ | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | - | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 4 | 5 |
| Acute Pneumonia | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 4 | - |
| Dysentery | 7 | 12 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | 44 | 43 | 9 |
| Measles | 1 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 1 | - | - | - | 47 | 47 | 9 |
| Whooping Cough | 23 | 49 | 33 | 60 | - | - | - | - | 165 | 164 | 22 |
| Scabies | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | . | 13 | 13 | _ |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 34 | 34 | - |
| Meninges and C.N.S. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Other forms | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 2 | - |
| TOTALS | 34 | 87 | 63 | 97 | 13 | 26 | 12 | 8 | 340 | 335 | 55 |