London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hampstead 1955
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
This page requires JavaScript
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| Disease | Notifications | Removed to Hosp. 1955 | Deaths 1955 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 1952 | 1953 | 1954 | 1955 | |||
| Diphtheria | 1 | - | - | -_ | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 72 | 15 | 40 | 73 | 32 | 6 | - |
| Encephalitis: | |||||||
| Acute Infective | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Post Infectious | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Erysipelas | 11 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 4 | - |
| Pood Poisoning | 23 | 6 | 21 | 19 | 56 | 10 | - |
| Malaria | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - |
| Measles | 1187 | 561 | 1186 | 36 | 1028 | 37 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | 3 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 74 | 37 | 53 | 47 | 53 | 22 | 4 |
| Poliomyelitis: | |||||||
| Non-paralytic | - | 4 | 2 | - | 28 | 22 | - |
| Paralytic | 2 | 7 | 10 | 2 | 9 | 8 | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 28 | 45 | 34 | 41 | 22 | 22 | - |
| Scabies | 16 | 17 | 24 | 23 | 26 | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 70 | 112 | 44 | 50 | 23 | 6 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | - | - | - | - | 4 | 4 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 289 | 193 | 215 | 169 | 114 | 13 | - |
| TOTAL: | 1782 | 1014 | 1646 | 480 | 1409 | 160 | 5 |
One death occurred of a female aged 69 from post
infectious encephalitis following herpes zoster. Two other cases
of post infectious encephalitis occurred, one (male, aged 48)
following herpes zoster, and one (female, aged 39) following
measles. One case of acute infective encephalitis occurred in
a female aged 15.
The only other deaths from notifiable disease were 4
°f cases of pneumonia.