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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 1962
[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 |