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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 1951
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Holborn Borough]
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TABLE No. 6.
| Disease. | Under 1 | 1-2 | 2-3 | 3-4 | 4-5 | 5-10 | 10-15 | 15-25 | 25-45 | 45-65 | 65 & over | Totals | Total | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | - | 4 | - | 1 | - | 2 | 12 | 22 | 34 |
| Enteric | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 |
| Food Poisoning | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Measles | 9 | 7 | 14 | 12 | 28 | 14 | 27 | 26 | 21 | 19 | 32 | 30 | 1 | 5 | - | 6 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 133 | 121 | 254 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | - | 1 | 4 | 4 | 8 | ||
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| Scabies | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Scarlet Fever | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 10 | 11 | 21 |
| Tuberculosis (Pulmonary) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 4 | 13 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | - | 26 | 19 | 45 |
| Tuberculosis (Non-Pulmonary) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | 17 | 33 | |
| Totals | 14 | 11 | 17 | 13 | 38 | 22 | 32 | 36 | 2? | 26 | 41 | 35 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 18 | 16 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 204 | 202 | 406 |