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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
Holborn 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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TABLE No. 2. Summary of Infectious Disease Notifications 1946. Age Groups.
| Disease. | Under 1 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3—1 | 4—5 | 5—10 | 10-15 | 16—25 | 25—45 | 45—65 | 55 & over | Age U.K. | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | P | M | F | M | F | M | F | 11 | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| Cerebro-spinal Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 |
| Diphtheria | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12 |
| Dysentery | – | – | 2 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| Enteric Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Erysipelas | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Measles | 1 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 1 | — | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 107 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 5 |
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | — | — | 17 | ||||||||||||||
| Poliomyelitis & Polioencephalitis | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | — | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | – | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 24 |
| Scabies | 1 | 3 | — | 2 | — | 2 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 29 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — | 106 |
| Tuberculosis— Pulmonary | — | — | 1 | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 2 | — | — | 55 |
| Non-Pulmonary | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | — | 1 | — | – | 1 | — | — | — | — | 5 |
| Whooping Cough | 3 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 4 | — | – | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | – | — | — | – | — | 43 |