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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

Hampstead 1956

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]

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Table: INFECTIOUS DISEASE

INFECTIOUS DISEASE

DISEASENotificationsRemoved to Hosp.1956Deaths 1956
19521953195419551956
Dysentery15407332358-
Encephalitis:
Acute Infective---122—
Post Infectious111322—
Erysipelas10713773-
Food Poisoning *6211956157-
Malaria—12——--
Measles56111863610282438-
Meningococcal Infection1322221
Ophthalmia Neonatorum351176-
Paratyphoid Fever2------
Pneumonia3753475354223
Poliomyelitis: Non Paralytic42-28---
Paralytic71029211
Puerperal Pyrexia453441224543—
Scabies1724232625--
Scarlet Fever112445023322-
Typhoid Fever—--411—
Whooping Cough1932151691149414-
TOTAL:-1014164647914095661215

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* A further 12 cases were ascertained but were not notified.

Table: TUBERCULOSIS

TUBERCULOSIS

AGE PERIODSRespiratoryNon-Respiratory
New CasesDeathsNew CasesDeaths
MFMFMFMF
0------—--
1-2-------
5-21-—-1-—
15-99---4--
25-2613-314—-
45-153—111—-
65-42--—-—-
75-2l-----—
TOTAL:-6029-4210--