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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
Lambeth 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth Borough]
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NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE - AGE DISTRIBUTION
| Age Groups | Scarlet Fever | Whooping Cough | Acute Poliomyelitis Non-Paralytic | Measles | Dysentery | Meningococcal Infection | Scabies | TOTALS | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||||||||||||
| Under 1 year | 1 | - | 5 | 4 | - | - | 9 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 43 | |||||||||||
| 1 year | - | - | 5 | 6 | - | 1 | 35 | 25 | 8 | 8 | - | - | - | - | 88 | |||||||||||
| 2 years | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 24 | 44 | 7 | 6 | - | - | 1 | - | 96 | |||||||||||
| 3 years | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | - | - | 32 | 30 | 6 | 9 | - | - | - | - | 90 | |||||||||||
| 4 years | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 42 | 31 | 8 | 6 | - | - | - | 1 | 99 | |||||||||||
| 5-9 years | 11 | 18 | 9 | 10 | - | - | 109 | 106 | 29 | 24 | - | - | - | 1 | 317 | |||||||||||
| 10-14 years | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | - | - | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | - | - | 2 | - | 39 | |||||||||||
| 15-24 years | 6 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 6 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 36 | |||||||||||
| 25 years and over | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 1 | - | 5 | 1 | 38 | |||||||||||
| TOTALS | 30 | 35 | 30 | 34 | - | 1 | 264 | 259 | 83 | 88 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 846 | |||||||||||
| Age Groups | Pneumonia | Acute Encephalitis | Typhoid Fever | Paratyphoid Fever | Erysipelas | Food Poisoning | Puerperal Pyrexia | Ophthalmia Neonatorum | TOTALS | |||||||||||||||||
| Infective | Post Infectious | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |||||||||
| Under 5 years | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 17 | 14 | 41 | |||||||
| 5-14 years | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | • | - | - | - | 4 | |||||||
| 15-44 years | 8 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | 3 | - | 62 | - | - | 82 | |||||||
| 45-64 years | 7 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | • | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 18 | |||||||
| 65 years and over | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 10 | |||||||
| TOTALS | 24 | 11 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | - | 62 | 17 | 14 | 155 | |||||||
| GRAND TOTAL | 1001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||