Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Finsbury Borough]
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SECTION F
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
General:
All cases notified were visited by the Infectious Diseases
Nurse/Visitor and energetic measures taken wherever indicated to
ensure adequate minimization of danger of infection to others.
The number of visits made by the Infectious Diseases Nurse/
Visitor in 1959 was 2,064.
The following table shows the incidence of notifiable diseases in 1959.
Acute Pneumonia | Diphtheria | Dysentery | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Gastro-Enteritis (under 2 yrs). | Measles | Meningococcal Infection | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | Poliomyelitis (Non-Paralytic) | Puerperal Pyrexia | Scabies | Scarlet Fever | Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) | Typhoid | Whooping Cough | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
65- | 29 | - | - | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 36 | |
45-64 yrs. | 17 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 14 | - | - | 46 | |
25-44 yrs. | 11 | - | 9 | 1 | 6 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 10 | - | - | 40 |
15-24 yrs. | 7 | 1 | 4 | - | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | - | 1 | 1 | - | 24 |
5-14 yrs. | 1 | 43 | 17 | - | 3 | - | 220 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 8 | 45 | _ | - | 6 | 345 |
1-4 yrs. | 8 | 5 | 12 | - | 5 | 7 | 334 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 23 | - | - | 8 | 404 |
Under 1 yr. | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | 11 | 30 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | 3 | 50 |
All Ages | 75 | 50 | 45 | 7 | 29 | 18 | 585 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 69 | 26 | 1 | 17 | 945 |
Acute Pneumonia | Diphtheria | Dysentery | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Gastro-Enteritis (under 2 yrs). | Measles | Meningococcal Infection | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Poliomyelitis (Paralytic) | Poliomyelitis (Non-Paralytic) | Puerperal Pyrexia | Scabies | Scarlet Fever | Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) | Typhoid | Whooping Cough | Total |