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 Hampstead Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| DISEASE | Notifications | Removed to Hosp. 1958 | Deaths 1958 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | |||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 73 | 32 | 35 | 26 | 60 | 10 | - |
| Encepba litiss | |||||||
| Acute Infective | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Post Infectious | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Eiysipelas | 13 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 2 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 19 | 56 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 6 | - |
| Malaria | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Measles | 36 | 1028 | 245 | 829 | 706 | 29 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum! Hampstead residents | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 6 | |
| Non-residents | - | - | 3 | 19 | 3 | 3 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| Pneumonia | 47 | 53 | 54 | 48 | 40 | 12 | 1 |
| PoliomyelitisjNon-Paralytic | - | 28 | - | 4 | - | - | - |
| Paralytic | 2 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 2 | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia: | |||||||
| Hampstead residents | 41 | 22 | 14 | 26 | 30 | 28 | - |
| Non-residents | - | - | 31 | 59 | 39 | 39 | - |
| Scabies | 23 | 26 | 25 | 13 | 33 | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 50 | 23 | 32 | 55 | 51 | 8 | |
| Typhoid Fever | - | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - |
| WhooDine Couch | 169 | 114 | 94 | 109 | 21 | 4 | - |
| TOTAL; | 479 | 1409 | 566 | 1235 | 997 | 152 | 2 |
TUBERCULOSIS
| Age Periods | Respiratory | N on-Respiratory | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Cases | Deaths | New Cases | Deaths | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | |
| 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 15 | 5 | 7 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| 25 | 19 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - |
| 45 | 21 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | - | - |
| 65 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - |
| 75 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| TOTAL j | 50 | 32 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 2 | - |