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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 1964
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]
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23.
INFECTIOUS DIESEASE.
| Disease | Notifications | Removed to Hosp.1964 | Deaths 1964 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 1961 | 1962 | 1963 | 1964 | |||||
| Diphtheria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Dysentery | 48 | 16 | 62 | 54 | 24 | 4 | — | ||
| Encephalitis: | |||||||||
| Acute Infective | - | — | 1 | - | - | - | |||
| Post Infective | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | - | - | ||
| Erysipelas | 6 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | — | ||
| Food Poisoning | 23 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 10 | — | ||
| Measles | 86 | 1093 | 193 | 737 | 327 | — | — | ||
| Meningococcal Infection | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | — | ||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | |||||||||
| Hampstead residents | — | 2 | 16 | 12 | 1 | 1 | — | ||
| Non-residents | 5 | — | 27 | 7 | — | - | — | ||
| Paretyphoid Fever | 2 | 1 | 3 | — | 1 | 1 | — | ||
| Peneumonia | 12 | 19 | 22 | 17 | 7 | 2 | 1 | ||
| Poliomyelitis: | Non-Paralytic | - | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | — | |
| Paralytic | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Puerperal Pyrexia: | |||||||||
| Hampstead residents | 7 | 3 | 16 | 9 | 13 | 13 | — | ||
| Non-residents | 21 | 13 | 12 | 16 | 10 | 10 | — | ||
| Scabies | 15 | 10 | 9 | 17 | 17 | — | — | ||
| Scarlet Fever | 18 | 38 | 20 | 10 | 21 | 5 | - | ||
| Typhoid Fever | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | — | ||
| Whooping Cough | 58 | 25 | 17 | 36 | 34 | 1 | — | ||
| Total:- | 314 | 1248 | 423 | 927 | 481 | 54 | 1 | ||
TUBERCULOSIS
| Age | Respiratory | Non-Respiratory | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Cases | Deaths | New Cases | Deaths | |||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| 0 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | - | — | - | - | — | — | - |
| 5 | — | — | — | — | — | - | — | — |
| 15 | 4 | 6 | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| 25 | 11 | 4 | — | — | 2 | — | — | — |
| 45 | 9 | 6 | — | — | - | 2 | — | - |
| 65 | 2 | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | - |
| 75 | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| TOTAL:- | 27 | 17 | 1 | - | 5 | 2 | - | - |