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. 1962 | Deaths 1962 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | |||
Diphtheria | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
Dysentery | 60 | 79 | 48 | 16 | 62 | 6 | - |
Encephalitis: Acute Infective | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - |
Post Infectious | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - |
Erysipelas | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 4 | - | - |
Food Poisoning | 15 | 26 | 23 | 13 | 12 | 2 | - |
Measles | 706 | 344 | 86 | 1,093 | 193 | 6 | - |
Meningococcal Infection | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum: Hampstead residents | 6 | 11 | - | 2 | 16 | 15 | - |
Non-residents | 3 | 14 | 5 | - | 27 | 27 | - |
Paratyphoid Fever | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | - |
Pneumonia | 40 | 47 | 12 | 19 | 22 | 4 | 3 |
Poliomyelitis: Non-Paralytic | - | 3 | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - |
Paralytic | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - |
Puerperal Pyrexia: Hampstead residents | 30 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 13 | - |
Non-residents | 39 | 34 | 21 | 13 | 12 | 12 | - |
Scabies | 13 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 9 | - | - |
Scarlet Fever | 51 | 37 | 18 | 38 | 20 | 5 | - |
Typhoid Fever | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | - |
Whooping Cough | 21 | 37 | 58 | 25 | 17 | 3 | - |
TOTAL:- | 997 | 687 | 314 | 1,248 | 423 | 105 | 3 |
TUBERCULOSIS
Age Periods | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
New Cases | Deaths | New Cases | Deaths | |||||
M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
0 | _ | _ | - | _ | _ | - | _ | - |
1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
5 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
15 | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | 4 | - | - |
25 | 15 | 8 | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - |
45 | 8 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - |
65 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
75 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 |
TOTAL:- | 30 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | - | 1 |