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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 1963
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| DISEASE | Notifications | Removed toHosp.1963 | Deaths 1963 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | |||
| Diptheria | 1 | 1 | — | — | - | — | - |
| Dysentery | 79 | 48 | 16 | 62 | 54 | 4 | - |
| Encephalitis: | |||||||
| Acute Infective | - | — | — | 1 | - | - | - |
| Post Infectious | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | - | - | — |
| Erysipelas | 8 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - |
| Food Poisoning | 26 | 23 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 1 | — |
| Measles | 344 | 86 | 1,093 | 193 | 737 | 9 | 1 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Opthalmia Neonatorum: | |||||||
| Hampstead residents | 11 | - | 22 | 16 | 12 | 12 | - |
| Non-residents | 14 | 5 | - | 27 | 7 | 7 | - |
| Paratyphoid Fever | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 47 | 12 | 19 | 22 | 17 | 3 | 3 |
| Poliomyelitis:Non-Paralytic | 3 | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - |
| Paralytic | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia: | |||||||
| Hampstead residents | 19 | 7 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 9 | - |
| Non-residents | 34 | 21 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 16 | - |
| Scabies | 17 | 15 | 10 | 9 | 17 | - | - |
| Scarlet Fever | 37 | 18 | 38 | 20 | 10 | 1 | - |
| Typhoid Fever | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | - |
| Whooping Cough | 37 | 58 | 25 | 17 | 26 | 5 | - |
| TOTAL:- | 687 | 314 | 1,248 | 423 | 927 | 71 | 4 |
TUBERCULOSIS
| Age | 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 | 5 | 5 | - | - | - | — | — | — |
| 25 | 14 | 9 | - | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | — |
| 45 | 9 | 6 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| 65 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 75 | - | — | — | - | 1 | - | - | - |
| TOTAL:- | 31 | 23 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 3 | - | - |