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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 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| DISEASE | Notifications | Removed to Hosp. 1959 | Deaths 1959 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 1956 | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | |||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | 1 | l | 1 | - |
| Dysentery | 32 | 35 | 26 | 60 | 79 | 34 | - |
| Encephalitis: | |||||||
| Acute Infective | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Post Infectious | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Erysipelas | 7 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 8 | 2 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 56 | 15 | 10 | 15 | 26 | 3 | - |
| Malaria | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Measles | 1028 | 243 | 829 | 706 | 344 | 19 | - |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 2 | - | l | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum: | |||||||
| Hampstead residents | 1 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 11 | 10 | - |
| Non-residents | - | 3 | 19 | 3 | 14 | 14 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 53 | 54 | 40 | 47 | 12 | 1 | |
| Poliomyelitis:Non-Paralytic | 28 | - | 4 | - | 3 | 3 | - |
| Paralytic | 9 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia: | |||||||
| Hampstead residents | 22 | 14 | 26 | 30 | 19 | 17 | - |
| Non-residents | - | 31 | 59 | 39 | 34 | 34 | - |
| Scabies | 26 | 25 | 13 | 13 | 17 | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 23 | 32 | 55 | 51 | 37 | 5 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 114 | 94 | 109 | 21 | 37 | 13 | - |
| TOTAL: | 1409 | 566 | 1235 | 997 | 687 | 176 | 3 |
TUBERCULOSIS
| Age Periods | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Cases | Deaths | New Cases | Deaths | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - |
| 15 | 9 | 10 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - |
| 25 | 27 | 13 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 45 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| 65 | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 75 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| TOTAL: | 58 | 35 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | - | 1 |