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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
Lewisham 1957
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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Notifications of infectious diseases in 1957 showing sex and age groups
Table 42
| Diseases | Under 1 | 1- | 3- | 5- | 10- | 15- | 25- | 45- | 65 plus | Total | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | |
| Dysentery | 2 | 15 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 63 | 66 | ||
| Encephalitis (acute) | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Enteric or typhoid fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 |
| Food poisoning | - | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 4 | - | 1 | 22 | 20 | |
| Measles | 38 | 31 | 295 | 286 | 340 | 291 | 667 | 719 | 21 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 6 | - | - | - | - | 1371 | 1357 |
| Meningococcal infection | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia neonatorum | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Pneumonia | - | 1 | 4 | 2 | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 10 | 22 | 17 | 8 | 54 | 42 | |
| Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 |
| Poliomyelitis (nonparalytic) | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 7 | 3 |
| Puerperal pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | - | 50 | - | - | - | - | - | 93 |
| Scabies | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 4 | 3 | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 10 | 8 | |
| Scarlet fever | - | - | 7 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 43 | 44 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 72 | 71 |
| Tuberculosis (respiratory) | - | - | 2 | - | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 20 | 35 | 43 | 40 | 18 | 16 | 3 | 128 | 92 |
| Tuberculosis (non-respiratory) | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 11 | 16 |
| Whooping cough | 10 | 17 | 20 | 30 | 22 | 26 | 40 | 49 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 95 | 130 | ||||
| Totals | 54 | 51 | 347 | 336 | 393 | 339 | 787 | 841 | 47 | 39 | 45 | 94 | 77 | 147 | 76 | 50 | 27 | 11 | 1853 | 1908 |