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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| Notifications | Removed to Hosp. 1961 | Deaths 1961 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DISEASE | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | I960 | 1961 | ||
| Diphtheria | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | — |
| Dysentery | 26 | 60 | 79 | 48 | 16 | - | |
| Encephalitis: Acute Infective | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Post Infectious | — | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | — |
| Erysipelas | 13 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | — | — |
| Food Poisoning | 10 | 15 | 26 | 23 | 13 | 6 | — |
| Malaria | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Measles | 829 | 706 | 344 | 86 | 1,093 | 44 | — |
| Meningococcal Infection | — | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum: Hampstead residents , | 8 | 6 | 11 | — | 2 | 2 | — |
| Non-residents | 19 | 3 | 14 | 5 | — | — | — |
| Paratyphoid Fever | — | 1 | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Pneumonia | 48 | 40 | 47 | 12 | 19 | 2 | 2 |
| Poliomyelitis: Non-Paralytic | 4 | —- | 3 | — | 3 | 2 | — |
| Paralytic | 11 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia: Hampstead residents | 26 | 30 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 2 | — |
| Non-residents | 59 | 39 | 34 | 21 | 13 | 13 | — |
| Scabies | 13 | 13 | 17 | 15 | 10 | — | — |
| Scarlet Fever | 55 | 51 | 37 | 18 | 38 | 9 | — |
| Typhoid Fever | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | — |
| Whooping Cough | 109 | 21 | 37 | 58 | 25 | 3 | — |
| TOTAL: - | 1 ,235 | 997 | 687 | 314 | 1 ,248 | 94 | 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 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | — | 1 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
| 15 | 6 | 9 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 25 | 11 | 8 | — | — | 3 | 9 | — | — |
| 45 | 10 | 5 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| 65 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| 75 | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| TOTAL:- | 28 | 26 | -— | 1 | 5 | 11 | — | — |